Wednesday, October 12, 2016

What I Relish Most About My Days

Everyday of the week, school offers a lunch program that is optional to attend. Mindful lunch happens to run every Tuesday. Yes you’re right, the name does say part of its content. Our faculty facilitator offers us tips to being more mindful, observing our own sensations, and discovering what works for our own, accustomed minds. However, we are often engaging in seemingly trivial conversations that actually help us understand ourselves better. So I was asked this question:

What do you like to do?

It seems like a vapid question, summoning only a straightforward answer. Yet when I dug deeper into myself, when I attempted to relive the sensation of enjoyment, I found this simple, though not sole, answer: laying on my bed at night, listening to soothing music.

I think I began this habit at the beginning of eighth grade, so a little over a month ago when I re-discovered the Irish singer, Enya. I was about 5 years old when had first heard her songs on the CD my dad played in the car, but when I was 8 years old, KISS 108 took over. I soon forgot about Enya until I heard her music on my art teachers playlist. It when then, I began to appreciate her unique, new age style.

Every night, implementing Amazon Echo and the speakers in my room, I lay on my bed. I close my eyes. Sometimes I don’t close my eyes and when I don’t, I focus on the golden light of the streetlamp that curiously peers through my curtain. It is then that I say:

Alexia, play……by Enya.

I hear a soft, gentle thump of the first note. Then a slightly more audible sound of a melody, followed by a timely onset of a song. It is this that I relish most about my days.

Below is a list of songs by Enya that are my top favorites:

  1. One by One
  2. China Roses
  3. Carribean Blue
  4. Book of Days
  5. Flora's Secret
  6. Silver Inches
  7. Wild Child



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