Don't Worry About a Thing...

What do you listen to when you're feeling down?

Here's my list:

• Bob Marley - Three Little Birds
• Billy Joel - You're Only Human (Second Wind)
• Billy Joel - And So It Goes
• Iz - Somewhere Over the Rainbow
• Yo Yo Ma - Bach's Suite 1, Prelude
• Coldplay - Yellow
• Dashboard Confessional - Hand's Down
• The Used - Blue and Yellow
• Eric Clapton - Layla (unplugged)
• Green Day - Good Riddance
• Jack Johnson - Flake
• Legiao Urbana - Eduardo e Monica
• Pearl Jam - Yellow Ledbedder
• Red Hot Chili Pepper - Under the Bridge
• Staind - So Far Away
• Sublime - Santeria

You'll notice that they're not really bubbly upbeat dongs. Those never work for me. They just seem to trivialize the reality of life. Instead, I think you have to let yourself go a little and accept the sadness/loneliness/melancholy/whatever for what it really is. And somehow, once you've let yourself feel bad for a moment or two, you realize that it really wasn't as bad as you thought after all, and you'll be okay.