You can count on me like One Two Three..I'll sing a song beside you..(Count On Me by Bruno Mars)💟🤝

What's up everyone? Finally we all are in August Company (Literally and figuratively, picked this from a very dear friend) monsoon showers, festivals, family and yes, the chosen family, friends!

Today we'll be discussing about our 'friends in need, and friends indeed,' they stay with you, and are always around you! Impromptu plans work the best with them. Before I screw up things with my Build-up Build-up game, let's get going with our friends, 'Books and Music.'

Music heals while books repair, the repair and the healing process is quite holistic and is a kind of a soul therapy which is slow and steady, nonetheless both make you feel better, with no remnants!

There's a different kind of joy when you discover a person, and you connect with him/her, and then you develop a bond which works like magic, and you are best of friends, and yes, you did not know this person, a few months back and now you seem inseparable, and you love yourself for gifting that person to you! The same joy can be experienced when you discover a good read or a good composition.

What is it about books and music, that make them the unpaid therapists of the modern-day world? When you read for leisure, you move with the plot; when you are on a book-date, you feel the words and the binding emotions.

When you listen to music, for pleasure, you move with the beats, the melody; when you have a play-date (do listen, if you haven't)with music, you feel the lyrics and the freewheeling expressions.

The one thing that binds/synchronizes both of these together, are words, heartfelt words. When they are penned through heart, they they do reach the reader/listener's heart and strike a bond, which stays forever.

Aren't their times when you actually don't understand the language which either of them speaks, but you are still able to connect yourself and decipher the emotion it reflects, why does that happen? Is it because you don't actually understand the language, and so you try to reinforce your state of mind, to the words, and make them your's ? Is it because sometimes we do yearn for someone to reflect and reciprocate to our emotions and be our person ? Isn't it magical that books and songs, and their words have this superpower to inherit and be our people ?

Music and books don't actually expect a thing from you, they are indeed your best friends, because they help you find a solution to your problems and give you the right prerogative to choose solutions over problems.

Happy Friendship Day to the best people in your life, and the two magical elements which are equally friendly, approachable, amiable, fun, and are your's truly!

Books, Music and You! May this bond keep on strengthening and stay with you always and forever!

If you're new in this space, do read the previous blogs, and see if we can be friends!

Love,

Nidhi.