FIGHTING INNER DEMONS WITH MUSIC
Insecurities are clingy friends to our minds: we do not like them but we do not even know why we have them in the first place. Temporary or not, this engulfing feeling of worthlessness, often manifested as menacing voices inside our head, can be so overwhelming as to decrease our daily productivity.
Thus, it is during these moments when you are in dire need of help. The list provides you with music for such situations.
1. Not Today - Twenty One Pilots
This happy-sounding song is a perfect song to listen to when you feel trapped and might be your cup of tea if you want to keep those troubled lyrics but do not want to listen to more sombre songs.
2. Creep - Radiohead
This song gears more towards the form of self-doubt you have when you feel like the person you want to be with is far better than you might ever be. Listen to this on a rainy day, thinking about your seemingly perfect crush to drown your sorrows.
3. Afraid - The Neighbourhood
This song is apt for the times when you have the irrational feeling that everyone around you hates you. It not only addresses those emotions but also talks about fighting them. Who knows, it might give you the courage to try to battle those unsound senses of insecurity.
4.What If I Told You - Jason Walker
There are times when we want someone, anyone, to talk to about what we are feeling but, even when the person is sitting right next to us, we question whether it would be worth it. Looking at that friend of ours, we engulf any word that comes to our throat in the fear that we would lose that person. This piece deftly delineates those very emotions in the span of around four minutes.
5. Mrs Potato Head - Melanie Martinez
In this progressively judgemental world, we are often left feeling anxious about our own appearances, what with all the fairness-enhancing and blemish-removing brands making us feel guilty about the very face we call our own. This song mocks that very idea of making others feel insecure about their skin and, be it indirectly, tells people to love themselves for who they are.
6. Firework - Katy Perry
A song of empowerment for those who are about to give up to their demons, this song must be the best way to end the list. It talks about those dark times when you feel as vulnerable as a plastic bag is in the wind and, later on, gives you the hope that you need to persevere, and to not give in to the irrationality of your brain.
Music is therapeutic and I hope these songs help you deal with the dissonance that your pessimistic side brings to your life.
Shweta Majumder is your fairly typical nerdette, with zeal for physics as huge as her glasses. In her free times, she loves to paint and listen to Twenty One Pilots. You can contact her at staceygreene.1507@gmail.com