Yes, I am back!

Mellow dramatic and nostalgic, but who won’t be.  Where I am, it has been raining for the last four hours, it is so cold, my kids are asleep and with me is my husband tapping on the keyboard of his computer for a report that he has to submit early tomorrow morning, and me, well just drowning myself in the piles of reports I have to either approve or disapprove.

I just remembered that I have yet to practice a song for a friend’s wedding.   She had insisted I sing for her and her one true love after coercing me into having myself fitted to be one of her bride’s maids as well, and in my search for the perfect song to sing, I realized that there is a better way for me to be able to do this.  (Oh how I wish I had the Enter Tech Magic Sing EG-18000 so I can just key in the songs and then…) but for now, surfing through the internet would have to do.  (Until I get my hands on one of these sleek, Magic Sing Mics and then we will be talking business.)

So yes, frustrated as I have to go through ever single song that either has the word “love” or “forever” in it, suddenly, the perfect song, “The First Time I Loved Forever” which became a hit in the days of the TV series, Beauty and the Beast starring Linda Hamilton and Ron Perlman.   Ah!  Love!  Teary-eyed, I know I have found the perfect song for my friend, not that she is the beauty and… oh well, go figure!  Oh the magic of love, the magic of singing (and yes, the Magic Sing and the magic it brings!).  Songs magically transform a so-so world into one that is full of life and love.

The irony of it is, no matter how we feel we have entered into the age of technology, we live today with the fads of the past, the apparel of the past and the music of the past and it still is perfectly fit with the lifestyle we all live today!

With all the high tech gadgetry and gizmos we have today, we still reminisce our past and we may not necessarily live in it, we continue to trudge on our lives with it!

The beauty of our life today with all of our access to technology is the fact that we can immortalize our past and celebrate their glory, and singing songs of the yesteryears and upgrading it to the beats we know so well is a testimony to how we actually appreciate our past as a people and yes babbling on, we may hear remakes upon remakes upon remakes of these beautiful songs, one thing is for sure, over the Magic Mic, it will still be of the same tune, the same beat and the same sound that will truly enable us to travel back in time to have a feel of how things sounded back then.

And yes, I guess, to put it in a nutshell, the first time we all learn to love forever is when we start loving everything that has happened, is happening and what will happen.

Emotions are what makes us the unique creatures that we are.  We cry when we feel sad and we laugh when we are happy, and one of the things that shows just how emotional we are is through this thing called singing.  Call me a hopeless romantic, but even Boy Bato who is known for his cold-heart and seemingly lifeless stare will hum you a tune or Annie Batumbakal has her own tune to dance to.   Yes, in fact, think about it, when you broke up with your very first honey, was there not a song that constantly played in your head that either made you run to the bathroom or run out the door with the excuse that you just “need to go”?  Or how about that song that made you feel that tingle run up your spine when you met “the one”?

Yes, singing has been our way of celebrating our moments in life, or under the circumstances, has made us mourn over what we consider that “oh my God, why me?” moment.  Singing in fact has been one of the better ways for us to express our repressed emotions.  Singing is a therapy for the brokenhearted, and singing too is his own special way of making the words “I love you” even more meaningful.  There is nothing in this world that cannot be better expressed with a melody and tune, and we are the only creatures in the earth who can croon with a beautiful melody and words that truly touches the heart.

With the advent of the Age of Karaoke and Magic Mic, almost everyone has found their muses and realized that they are singers.  Emotional creatures that we are, we have found ourselves releasing every single strand of frustration and every ounce of happiness through the songs we sing.   In my terms, except in rare occurrences, singing has been our non-violent reaction to what life throws our way, stones and bread and all!

As I have found out, our life is a song.  Like the tunes we belt out, it has its high notes and low notes, but the ending is that smooth finish, happy or sad.  This is how life truly is depending on the choices that we make and thank God for songs, there is a choice of what songs we would like to sing all our lives!