This week I’m listening to Ben Harper’s 1994 debut album “Welcome to the Cruel World”. This album takes me back to the year 2003. I had just received a care package 📦 from my dii, and this time she had sent me this amazing album, which is one of my favourites of all time. Track 10 on the album, the song “Walk Away,” is one I have a very deep emotional attachment to as it takes me back to many memories of my 14 year old self, learning how to play this very guitar riff in the silence of late nights spent awake in my room. #nightowl
This song finds me again later in 2008, as I was finishing up my 18th year in this universe and my very first relationship was coming to an end. He was moving away for uni and I was about to head to Kathmandu to write and release my first album. “Astha, don’t say anything, just listen to the words to this song okay?”, he said. And through the tiny speakers of my white Sony Ericsson W810i phone, to my surprise, he played me this same song by Ben Harper. A complete coincidence or a sign from the universe?
This song in that moment, felt like a warm blanket’s embrace on a chilly morning. I felt comforted, understood, and in awe that the universe had given me exactly what I needed. Songs always have a way of finding their way back to you, when you need them the most. From that moment on, I knew that everything was going to be okay, and you know what? Sabai thikai nai bhayo :).
#walkaway #welcometothecruelworld #benharper #songsthatmademe
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