Think about this past year. Is there a song that you’ve heard that has really struck a chord, one that has spoken to you? Maybe there’s a song that goes along with your one word for 2011. Maybe there is a song that you’ve heard that instantly cheers you up or makes you think of a special moment that happened this year?

The soundtrack to my year has mostly consisted of Old Crow Medicine Show and The Heavy. However, the reason that this year didn’t completely suck was that I changed me attitude and the song that has summed up that attitude was ‘A Little Bit of Feelgood’ by Jamie Lidell

Because it’s true. Big things like jobs, partners, deep spiritual fulfillment can and do make you happy but little things keep you going. I’m in the second week of my new job and it makes me happy to finally be working and earning my own way, but the shine of that will soon wear off when faced with reality of the daily grind. However, someone calling you “because I was thinking about you”, having your nephew walk up to you and hug you for no apparent reason (I didn’t even have food in my hand!), the joy of spending an evening with friends, going for a walk in the sunshine, the moment when your brother in the middle of the worse week of his life asks you how you’re doing, the satisfaction of helping your friends move house. It’s been the ‘little bits of feelgood’ that have kept me going this year and will continue to do so in 2012…