Hello, fellow hivers.
This is my entry for Hive Open Mic week 192. The theme is GRATEFUL. I have typed the theme in all caps because because I truly have a lot to be grateful for as I reminisce about the past year or so.
July last year to July this year was the worst 12 months of my life so far. I'm just 25, I know. My mental health and sanity plunged to depths I didn't even know it could descend to. Around sometime in March, I was actually recommended to see a psychiatrist by one of my teachers in medical school, I refused. By August, I overcame all the trials I had before. I spent the next two months recalibrating and regaining my sanity, and now? I'm as fine as the sun in the sky or the breeze drifting by.
How fitting is it then that my next post in this community after not posting for about 51 weeks (basically a full year) is on the theme of GRATEFUL.
I will be performing a song I have loved for a long time: GRATEFUL by ASA.
I hope you enjoy my redition of the song.
Here are the original lyrics of the song.
Era ile, era ile
Won yin baba l'oke
Yanrin okun, yanrin okun
Won n yin baba l'oke
Eranko ile, eranko igbo Won n yin baba l'oke
Awon alaini, awon tan ti ni
Won yin baba l'oke
[Chorus:]
Ko se igbati nkan ba se yan
Ko to mo pe baba n be l'oke
Ko se igbati nkan ba se yan
Ko to mo pe looto o n be l'oke
You don't have to wait till you feel the pain
You can start right now
It's not too late
It's not too late, to be grateful
Era ile, era ile,
Won yin baba l'oke
Yanrin okun, yanrin okun
Won yin baba l'oke
Pe mo wa laye, mo wa laye
Gbogbo n ti mo ni, ma fin yi o l'ogo
Believe this world a better place
[Chorus]
Wo mi, bi mo se n f'ope ye baba
Da di da dada
Da di da dudu
Da di da dada
Da di da dudu
It's not too laaate
Source:AZ lyrics
The English translation is already subtitled into the video.
Here is a link to the original song.
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