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Daily Prompt: Day 7: What is your favorite song? Tell us why. Share some of the lyrics that mean something to you.

You Never Know Why A Song Becomes Your Favorite

You will eventually know for sure if you dig deeper

Lalitha Brahma
2 min readSep 8, 2022

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Photo by Christian Senan on Unsplash

Today’s prompt transported me from my childhood to my adult to elder years.

Want to know how?

For loving the song, tune, background music, and scene from the Hindi movie “Guddi” and had no idea of what the lyrics meant as an innocent child.

For learning the song in her 30s using a Tape recorder by playing one verse, listening, hitting pause, learning that verse, and repeating the process.

For participating in an English writing Challenge, but wanting to share with her audience her favorite Hindi Song, as a lady graciously embracing her Elder years.

Here is the Video of the song Please give it a try even if you don’t speak Hindi. Music has no language.

Title : Hamko man ki shakti dena ( Language Hindi)

Title: Give us strength to overcome our mind ( English Translation)

Here is the English Translation:

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Lalitha Brahma
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