The Cure For The Blues

This last weekend I got a visit, a visit I would rather not have had, I got a visit from the blues.  Certain things happened with certain people that got my mind working extra on thought I'd rather not have.  In my long experience with the blues I have come to find that there are several things that help a lot.  First, friends, true friends, the kind of friends that listen to everything I had to say, two and maybe three times, the kind of friends that feel for you and empathize with you.  I am lucky enough to have several of these friends, but this last weekend one in special, Eguie, was my salvation.  I have come to find that what The Beatles said was true, I do get by with a little help from my friends.

True friends are hard to find, I know it's a cliche, but truer words have never been spoken.  So, although this weekend one person gave me a reason to cry and be sad, my friends gave me many more reasons to smile.  This friend of mine and me, we have a passion in common, music.  This is another ingredient of the cure for the blues.  I listened to a lot of music this past weekend, I discovered new music, rediscovered old music and indulged in some of my favorites.  I have a special playlist on my iPod for when this happens.  Thanks to a little music exchanging with my friend, that playlist grew.  Music is powerful.  Music heals.  It connects us and gives us a sense of not being alone, someone else has been through the same thing and made it to the other side.  Through music you can speak to other people or say things you would be able to say other wise, or in such an eloquent way (Cee Lo Green's Fuck You anyone?).  How I listen to music varies, sometimes it's while I'm driving, my car is my therapy room.  While I'm stuck in traffic I tend to sing, cry and sometimes even scream, after which I tend to feel sooo much better.  Other times I'm alone in my bedroom, with the lights off (sometimes with a glass of wine ;-) , but I tend to to this only when I'm alone and know I won't be interrupted, since tears tend to come along), also, I love to hear music while I'm reading, a little background something.  This gets me to my other ingredient in the cure for the blues.  Reading.

I love to get lost in a good book, and ever since I began law school this has become  a reward, a little vacation.  I have no time to read for leisure anymore (sadly), but when the blues come to visit, everything else tend to go to hell and I have to indulge in myself, since I'm good for nothing else while in that condition.  SO I pick up a good book, put some music on and read.  I get so lost in the story that my mind switches off for a while and I forget about the blues or what/who gave them to me.  I have a very vivid imagination ( I like to think I owe this partly to the fact that I have always read, since I was a little girl), so vivid that I tend to picture what I read in my mind and sometimes, after reading something, I'm not sure if I read it on a book or saw it on a movie or TV.  Which gets me to the last of the ingredients of my cure for the blues (at least the last of the big important, never fail ingredients, there are other but, I've already written way to much), movies and TV.

I find that watching a movie, which movies depends on what caused the blues, also helps.  At least just a little, getting lost in someone else's story, making an artificial connection and empathizing with someone else, seeing that there are worse things that people have come out from, that gives me strength.  This last weekend I was in the mood for  (500) Days Of Summer, The Break-Up, The Way We Where, An Affair To Remember and Back To The Future.

I know for a fact that I have written mire than enough, so  write to you later...feel free to comment!!


Music from this weekend:

And more I won't bother you with...

Here are some of the trailers for the movies:

That was for (500) Days Of Summer, one of my favorite movies, it's a gem!!

This one was for The Way We Were another gem, I discovered this one thanks to the girls of Sex And The City.

And that one was for The Break-Up