Singing Along
I’ve been talking a lot about the different things that I stopped or let go of along the way. Another of those things is singing. As a young child I was in the school choir and sang in front of people all the time. That changed when I went to middle school and started playing an instrument in the band instead. But I was still performing, and still belting out the songs along with the radio whenever I could.
If I was in the car, the radio was on and I was singing along. If I was home listening to music (and I was always listening to music), the only time I wasn’t singing along was if I was reading. And for a really good song, I would stop reading just to sing.
I didn’t even notice when I stopped singing along, just one day I no longer did. Maybe it was when I started spending more time reading and was listening to audio books on long drives? I didn’t hear new releases on the radio during this time, so I wouldn’t know the words when a song did come on. But I’ve had a shorter commute for almost 2 years, listening to the radio every day, and I’m still not singing.
Even as things have been shifting and settling into place in my life, this is the one thing that hasn’t. Maybe it’s because I just recently noticed it? I’m not sure… but I do know that I want to sing again.