THANK GOD FOR THE GIFT OF MUSIC 

Have you ever stopped and thought what your life would be like without music? What would the world be like without music? Sometimes it’s easier to see how important something is to us by imagining to what extent our lives would be affected without it. Music is a way to express feelings. When you fall in love, the kind of music you’d listen to would be all about love. When you’re sad, you would go for music that is melancholic in nature and immerse yourself in your sadness. When you’re happy, you’d choose songs with happy tunes.

A world without music means taking your daily shower before going to work or school or getting off to bed like a silent lamb. It means we cannot express our patriotism every Monday Mornings through our National Hymn. It means our Sunday Mass would just consist of the reading of the Scriptures, a Sermon, Homily and Communion without the Angel-like voices of the choir. It means blowing a birthday cake would begin with just a simple greeting of “Happy Birthday”. Brown Dash, Lebo Mathosa and others could have died as ordinary people.

The world without music means that they wouldn’t be any parties as parties are conducted by music. We would feel no emotional pain as that background d soundtrack in Titanic would play. We just all have to admit that the world would be a boring place without the existence of music, no matter what genre and the language the song is sang with. As they say, music has no language. No matter which country you come from, you would know a good song when you hear one. You don’t have to know the meaning of the lyrics to enjoy the song in full. Music speaks to one’s heart.

 Thank God for the music. Thank God that we can still sing whether it’s a good or bad situation. Be grateful of music as it manages to excite us and make us dance.