Old songs are horses on which memories ride. Nothing can make you nostalgic as much as old songs. As a child, I have often watched older people become misty eyed and have a strange expression on their faces when they talked about old songs they had heard when they were young. The simple mind of a child never understood why seemingly boring songs were so close to their heart. Now I do...
There is a song associated with every memory, with every loved one. Why do you love a particular song? Because you might have attached an emotion to it. You might have identified yourself with the song or just appreciated what it said and applied to yourself. I was watching this program on some tamil channel, it was a program about the great maestro, Illayaraja and his songs. The host asked the group of people assembled there which song evoked their emotions and why? All of them replied with some song or the other and when asked why that particular song was their favourite, they had a memory associated with it. It was a song their parents loved. It was a song they sang when they were in love. It was a song that the entire family put their heart in...
I have many such songs. There are so many songs me and my room mates have sung together in our graduate days in the hostel. Now when I hear the songs, I find the tunes not so great, the lyrics ridiculous , but I do not stop singing to it and chuckling at the days spent together. One of my close friends and me had this habit of singing to songs and we both remembered the same section of a song and la-la-la ed the same section and giggle silly about it.
Songs have funny moments with them too.. As you grow older, the old songs remind you of your carefree youth and the time when relations were ideal and friendships were beyond the limits of formalities.
So , sing an yesteryear tune, hum and remember the lovely memories , sing the favorite tunes of loved ones.. Sing, for the sound of music is the essence of existence.
