Cold

By Aneri Desai

I sing songs at the top of my voice at home and my family members smile not because I sing well but because I look quite different while I sing! On a winter's day I caught a cold and my voice changed and my throat hurt a little and I sang. It felt so good and it felt different. It felt as if an unwanted, unprecedented cold just came into my life and the singing warmed it up and nullified it's existence for quite some time. Did the discovery of the fact that I can embrace such uninvited situations with such ease make me feel different and good? Do I have many such "colds" in my life? Would remedies for them be as simple as singing a song?

By Aneri Desai