SILENT NIGHT

This old Christmas song always gets to me whenever I sing it, be it alone or with a group of people. I remember while growing up, I had different memories of singing this song. One Christmas I was about 13 or 14 years old at that time, I hummed to the rhythm of the song for almost three days, and on several occasions, I would find myself tearing up in the process. One time my dad was so surprised to see me in such a state that he wondered why I was tearing up on such a happy day, he had found me tearing up in my sleep and was like; are you sure you're okay?... All I could say is yes I'm fine because I wasn't ready to cry a real cry of pain if I dared to tell my Nigerian father that a song touched me so hard that I was tearing up 😂.

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Another experience I've had is in my school's assembly during December we will sing a series of Christmas hymns in the assembly. It was as though “silent night” always leaves a silence in my soul whenever I hear the rhythm and lyrics. Especially the ” sleep in heavenly peace part”. I haven't downloaded it to my new device because not until today I've been too busy to think about Christmas songs😂. At this point, there's a 95% chance I'm downloading the song again this year. I would often listen to it and replay it like 100 times before it reaches the end 😂. This is usually because the part of the song that touches me well did not touch me well enough.

However, it was quite different in the 2019 Christmas season as I listened more to break-up songs than Christmas songs. It was simply because I was going through a heartbreak that period after being served a really delicious breakfast 😂. I comforted myself with passenger’s ” Let Her Go” album which nearly got me into depression by the way 😂 so even when everyone was saying happy holidays and Merry Christmas, all I wanted to do was look for a way of escape from my broken heart. But apart from that, Silent Night always does a very good job of spreading the holiday spirit even when I'm not feeling in the mood. I do not cry anymore when I listen to it, but it comes more like a motivation to go out and spend time with friends and all, especially when I'm not feeling any of it. And being me, I'm often not feeling any of it 😂.

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It's funny how the holiday spirit gets us in different moods, and I can't say why I'm drawn to the song Silent Night. A lot of people I know prefer the very popular ” Feliz Navidad” but to me, it's just a song. Maybe it's because I'm a lover of blues and Westlife, but then again I remember one time when a friend was teasing me about my love for boring music. Actually, most of my friends have teased me for it, saying how boring I get when I listen to those songs and how I tend to kill the holiday spirit in them… actually, I don't give a damn 😂.