Let’s get this out there. I don’t like Christmas music. In general, I find it to be too fake and sugary. Look, we all know your family ain’t that perfect. LOL. And in general, I don’t cry at much of anything. It usually takes some real trauma, emotional or otherwise, to make me cry, or some baggage being triggered. However, I must confess, there are two songs on rotation this time of year that make me cry. I have such an emotional reaction to these two that it might be worth exploring why: O Holy Night and Ave Maria. I am not religious. They are just so freaking beautiful, authentic and raw. I can’t not cry when I hear them. And I don’t mean squeezing a few token tears out. I mean get the tissues, full on tears rolling down my cheeks, CRYING at the pure inspired beauty of them. But it feels like something more. Did I have some history with these songs in a past life? I may never know. But for now, every December, I will torture myself with YouTube videos of these two songs over and over, and try not to cry in public when I hear them in the coffee shop. Somebody bring the tissues.
