🎵 Hive Open Mic 157 - Perfect Day (Cover of a Song by Lou Reed)

_{To fast forward to the performance of the song skip to 1.56 in the video.}

As I explained in the video I had a bit of thinking to do with the week's Hive Open Mic theme as I am an atheist, and so the theme - "Al Dios Que Adoramos" (The God We Worship) - seemed a none starter at first.

But when I thought about the central commonalities between all religions, once you get past the idea many religions push that 'their god' is the one true god (meaning everyone else is wrong 😂), once you get past that, the core idea that all religions share is that of faith.

I have religious friends - Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Sikh and a practising Buddhist friend, and all of them describe faith in almost the same terms. Although they may express it in slightly different ways, it comes down to trust and love of their god along with the belief that their god is looking after them, or guiding them in some way out of love.

Once I realised this I decided to enter this edition despite not being religious, because the one thing I strive for in my life, and think that humanity as a whole needs to embrace and value more, is love.

Giving love unconditionally is one of the most positive and important human traits which we should nurture until it grows to become the dominant drive behind what we do as a species. Love negates conflict, if more people in the world expressed love rather than a constant need for competition; we’d live in a more peaceful and less divisive world.

Anyway, I don’t pretend to understand faith completely, it seems to me that you either have it or you don’t in a religious context. But I would strongly argue that non-religious people can have faith in ideas or concepts as I mentioned with my belief in the power of love as a force for good in the world.

I hope you enjoyed my rendition of 'Perfect Day' by Lou Reed.

Despite the fact Lou Reed wrote that song inspired by something completely different to what it inspires in me, I love that song. It encapsulates that feeling of a perfect day filled with love, laughter and joy.

But I'll stop now with all this before I reach level eight on the Richter scale of cheesiness 😂

Let me know what you think of my cover in the comments.

Thanks for reading 🙂🌿

_{All media in this post is either my own, or shared for reference (as with the Lou Reed song) fair use.
I used DaVinci Resolve video editor to synch the lyrical audio to the instrumental and create the split screen effect.}