Cookie recommends “The Sun Always Shines on TV” by a-ha
Most people think of a-ha as a one-hit wonder with "Take On Me" but "The Sun Always Shines On TV" was the song off their debut album that haunted me.
The violins in combo with the synth piano, guitar, and drums gave me chicken skin. I loved the song lyrics even more: "I reached inside myself and found nothing there to ease the pressure off my ever worrying mind" spoke to the part of 12-year-old me that was trying to understand my anxiety, which was perfectly captured by "my ever worrying mind."
I had never thought about it that way, that reaching inside myself and finding nothing there to calm my anxiety made me feel powerless to help myself. This a-ha song put words and music to that feeling and helped me understand that I wasn't alone in feeling it.
About the author:
Cookie Hiponia is a writer, editor, and poet living in Seattle with her two daughters. Her first book is called WE BELONG and it is available wherever fine books are sold. Cookie is working on her second book as well as her third and fourth books, plus two other writing projects, all at the same time. She constantly needs a nap.
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