I can't sing

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I have never been a particularly good singer and I've never pretended to be good. That being said I love musicals and find myself horribly belting along to them. I have bought the sing along versions of some of my favorites much to my husband's discontent. I am usually nice enough to sing along when he's not around because I'm nice like that. One day I was belting along to the new Mama Mia soundtrack and my son walks in and loudly asks "are you ok?!" I couldn't help I lost it. I was laughing so hard and told him that I was just fine. I'm fairly certain that the upstairs neighbor's dog was probably howling due to being able to hear me through their floor. I have a knock policy in place that my son clearly dismissed as he barged in. I told him maybe next time he'd learn to knock first so as not to hear my horrible voice. The funny thing is most of the time he claims to love when I sing to him. I used to sing him to sleep as a baby (maybe he was pretending to sleep to get me to stop who knows) and he has asked me to sing to him ever since because it's my voice and no matter how horrible it is I think it comforts him but this particular day my voice was even worse than usual. I also had a cold on top of things so it sort of added to it. My husband can't sing either and we often joke about how bad the other sings. When I think back to when I was in my early 20s I often remember how my friends and I would take mini road trips and sing horribly in unison. We all knew we sounded horrible but didn't care. I feel like sometimes you just need to let the music take over and just sing horribly at the top of your lungs because life is too short to care what others think. I feel like sometimes you just need those little moments in life that stay with you like singing horribly at the top of your lungs with friends to the point you make dogs howl and you need to not care because those are some of the best memories in life. I may not be able to sing but I know that sometimes in life it shouldn't be about how well you do something but be about having fun and letting go. I will never be a singer and that's ok but that doesn't mean I can't enjoy those things even if I'm not great at them. I can't carry a tune to save my life but I can enjoy the little moment's life brings and that's what matters most.