December Playlist 🎧 There’s always a light in the dark 😚
I have amazing news! A limited amount of copies of our new album is for sale NOW!! Go buy it before i’s too late 🙂 I am so happy that some fortunate souls will get it before everyone else in February! We worked so freaking hard for this one. You are taking a little piece of each of us to your home.
I am incredibly grateful and happy. It’s time to celebrate, right? Well, there’s always something to be grateful for. Even in the darkest times.
Yes, I’m talking literal darkness. The days get shorter. It seems that Winter came to stay. One day the thermometer says 21ºC, the next one it reads 6ºC. What the actual hell? November was nice and warm, but it’s time for December to remind us what cold and rain means in Galicia.
December 2020, the last month of this year, the longest in human history. It’s amazing how time is clearly something we humans invented to feel more connected to our earthly duties.
It’s also nice to have this way of tracking time though. Even though I’m sure each of us track things differently.
For instance, in my case, I never think of Mondays as the start of the week, nor Sunday. I have this way of thinking: Sundays are the preparation for Mondays, then Monday and Tuesday are the first day of the week. I don’t know. It feels like Sunday is the perfect day to get some things ready and reset some other things. While Monday is never enough to make everything that needs to be done.
The same happens with months. December is the last month of the year, but…for me it’is when I start planning the next year too and the moment I start “practicing” my goals.
It seems that starting on January 1st makes no sense to me. The one day that I stay up till 1 o’clock is December 31st…I’m not going to get up early on January 1st and start doing all those things on my list. I’ll probably keep celebrating the New Year.
I know that for many of you, this won’t make any sense, but I also know I’m not that weird for other people. Times are changing…and as my good friend Paddy Casey would say…”and so are we”.
His song says “Times are tough, babe and so are we” that also applies to what we are living now. Many people (including myself) are saying how long the year seems. But, you know I’m an optimistic. When do we learn the most if it’s not when we are having or toughest time.
In my case I feel like I’ve trained for 2020. Yes, indeed. If you want to read a bit about my training, here you have a couple of posts that talk about it: A year afeter the car crash; A year after the car crash: Fear, Gratitude and What We Ate. and Food, in sickness and in health (Hospital IV)
But I (almost) always focus on gratitude. Why? Because focusing on the bright side of life has worked for everyone. Even if you don’t believe it, you have to try it. One thing I am grateful for is that I played live in November in the other side of the country. Even though it’s not how it used to be, travelling and playing is something to be grateful.
Life is just one experience we are living and if we victimise ourselves, we’ll live in fear and despair.
I don’t want to live my life like that. I know it gets hard some times, you can even say most of the time. For some people is a constant struggle. You don’t have to tell me anything, I am a musician and it’s 2020, c’mon, I understand how shitty life can seem. But the only thing you can change is your attitude, your perspective and how you react to that shit.
You can clean it up and keep going, you can complain and then laugh about that shit…or you can say how unfortunate you are and focus on how shit keeps coming to you.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s obvious that some days you’ll feel like you need to be a victim, others you need to be sad about what happens, but what I’m sayng is…don’t linger on that shitty feeling. Focus on what’s right for you.
For example: a shitty thing happens and you thik “Why shit keeps happening to me”, that’s ok. But then, you find perspective and change that sentence to: “It’s true shit is happening more often lately to me, but I’m sure it’ll go away eventually. I am so grateful for x, y and z” That’s the spirit.
I feel like I’ve talked enough about shit in this post XD Well, this is supposed to be a food blog, ain’t it? The cycle of life haha.
I really hope your year has been a manageable shitty one. Know that every single person is struggling everyday in some way, so if we all try to be nice to ourselves and understand that we all are trying our best, life would be much easier.
It’s not only being kind to others that matter, we need to be kind to ourselves. And we often forget about both.
I hope you enjoy December and anything you celebrate. I know I will. As always, have fun and keep fooding!
Here are some posts you might want to check out:
Or maybe this vegan recipe: Stuffed Pumpkin with pomegranate.
