The Artists save us — Let’s talk music, art, movies, books.

“When life feels like a punch in the gut, and the foundation beneath you begins to crumble, remember that art is there to comfort you.”

It might be in the type of art you admire — a soothing song, a deep painting, a verse of poetry, some kind of quote, a book collecting dust on your bookshelf, a movie that was recommended to you ages ago but you never quite found the time to watch. All forms of art will rush in to comfort you.

When friends and family have tried twice and thrice and yet again about a hundred times, art will hug you without you asking.

The strumming pattern in a song will soothe your racing heart, the lyrics of a song you once overlooked might suddenly hold the answers you’ve been searching for, the quote will guide you to take the right decision or stop you from making the wrong one, the movie will give you perspective and the depth of the painting, the colors it blends in, will show you the complexity of it all.

The Artists then, do save us. The music, art, movies, poems, books…they all count.

They provide you with the much needed kindness or the wake — up call in a city that never sleeps and never stops.