Love and Music

After hearing this Chinese song on Lau's site, I suddenly got a little nostalgic over love in music. I'm usually not in great favor for Chinese (Cantonese) music mainly because I think the lyrics are pretty blech. But sometimes I hear a great Cantonese song and then I change my mind, until I come across bad music. And the cycle starts over. English songs are still the best.

Anyway, soulful songs make me sad. I know I have every reason to be happy sometimes and I am, but sometimes I just am not. One of the things songs get me sad is love itself, or the love that goes through every possible trials. Parental love, child love, romance love, friendship love etc. All the essential relationships in our life that we need to be able to learn to love and be loved.

I have never ever really lacked parental love and familial love and this is where I am very lucky. I am very close to my parents, despite some big differences here and there. I have gotten a lot closer to my siblings over the past few years. At the end of the day, we cannot picture life without each other. But I will hear some songs here and there in life that can spark an imagination where my family is not in the picture, and then that can easily move me to tears. At the end of the day, I wish to have my family with me at every major turn of events that happen in my life, despite the discrepancies of old age and diseases. Maybe it's childish of me to hope for my family to be with me throughout my life but when it comes to loving, you love with all you have and hold on them (physically) as much as possible. Often times, there's always a couple songs that brings the family together for just a few moments, because everyone finds a way to hum or sing with each other.

Love in a friendship, I think, is the most vulnerable. It disappears just as quickly as the friendship develops. But there are always certain friendships that get away, and you still love them, even if you deny it. The things you went through together just haunts you everywhere in life. Often times, a song just reminds you over and over the bond that brought the friendship together or the song that drove it away.

When it comes to loving someone romantically, there is something really magical about songs that elevate our emotions. This is certainly true of my past, as well as my present. Loving someone and being loved, in the perfect timing; songs just bring them together, creating this harmony with love, time and words that describe it all.

Tonight, I just feel like listening to some soulful songs and mesmerize my soul with the melody and the lyrics. Everything about love is described better with songs.

Please excuse my heavy entry. I'm in my reflection mode, sparked by meaningful conversations with a few people this week. I do recommend you guys to listen to Rascal Flatts - What hurts the Most.