Just some ideas: Nobody loves you, when you're down and out

or, as the saying goes: people who lie on the floor, sometimes get kicked into the bargain.

Now: did I have that kind of experience recently? Why do I bring that up?
I bring it up, because - as so often with me - it is a song. It is a song, that I heard Teri Hatcher sing as Wanda Detroit in "Lois and Clark - The new Adventures of Superman."

But there are serveral other versions of it, like this by Bessie Smith:

It is soulful and really well sung, me thinks. Sad as well, but sometimes it is nice to be sad. And than it is nice to have a "sad song". Just to be comforted. My favourite "sad song" or "depression song" is by the BeeGees: I started a joke.

It really is sad and depressing, but it always calms me down and relieves me of some of my stress symptoms.. BUT it is not good to dwell on depression and sadness. If you can - and unless you are really ill, you usually can - you should really go and find yourself something a little happier. And that is, when my next song for those situations comes into play, a "not so very sad anymore"-song

Now, the topic is sad, but it does have a happy melody. So it moves up my mood quite a bit. I am getting out of it again.

My "I am happy again"-songs differ from time to time, but there is one song, from a german preacher hundreds of years ago, actually he lived through the 30 year war in Europe and died years after it an old man:

Paul Gerhardt. The Song is: "Geh' aus mein Herz und suche Freud". In english it is something like: go out and seek joy. And then there is: Du meine Seele singe. "You my soul sing" and from Dietrich Bonhoeffer (never know how to write the name correctly): Von guten Mächten treu und warm umgeben "Wrapped around by good Powers". Or Die güldne Sonne "The golden sun".

It has rhythm. At least in this version. In church it is often sung very slow. But what I like about this song: here was a man, who was a child, when the 30-years-war started and a grown man, when it ended.

He had just lost his wife and at least one of his children. So if anyone had any reason to be really unhappy, it was him. But he wrote this song instead. Or rather the text. The melody is from someone else.

I do not know, if everyone knows the story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Like many people he was sent to a KZ for his fight against the Nazis and he died there. But he wrote this song. My grandma had the first lines of this song hanging in her room. And we sang it at her funeral more than 12 years ago. It is a very moving song and it reminds me, of how lucky I am. I can give me the luxury of unhappyness, but I can snap out of it as well. And now we come to my current favorite in resurrecting into happyness: