Catherine Barnes
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Soul comfort during this Pandemic
Bob Marley - Three little Birds This song is actually one of my favorite songs and it really has helped me over the last two months and dealing with this Pandemic away from home and far from my family. As an native from another land, it has been pretty hard coping with stress, anxiety, and mixed emotions that geared up under my sleeves every time I come across news in the media and as much as earlier it wasn't about my country, I was always worried because I knew some way the virus would have entered Liberia cause we are open to travel and tourism. One will think it is the fear of the COVID-19 resonating in my country, but actually it is because I feared the blow my country was going to be faced with. Fast forward, Liberia became one of the corona zones; my stress level went up. I couldn't get myself to think straight or about anything positive much. I couldn't get myself to picture where in this world I was for days. I smoked (excessively actually), tried watching movies, listening to podcasts, and looking up comedy skits but none of these actually worked. Reliantly, I went back to listening to music like usual but I kept skipping songs because apparently most of the songs on my playlist were not speaking to my soul at the moment. One morning, reliantly, I turned on my bluetooth, volume high to the point I wouldn't hear myself crying because for more than two weeks that was my life, started playing music as usual then suddenly “Three little birds” started playing. The song played while I was singing it in my head till it got to the chorus and I found myself singing it out loud. I felt good for that moment and wanted to continue feeling that way for the entire day so I put the song on repeat. The song played for like up to 7-8 times and I just couldn’t believe a song would put me in a better state considering how low I was. To be frank, I anticipated going back home and as such I felt I would have only been okay and myself again if I’d made it back home but then it didn’t happen and Bob Marley Three little birds became my safe place and best thing to listen to because he said “don’t worry, about a thing... because every little is going to be alright’. I have held to this line since that day and I am not going to worry because I know everything is going to be alright.
By Catherine Barnes4 years ago in Beat