More Than Singing

As I was having my rainy lone days here at home, painting chairs and drawing concepts from the deepest darkest corners of my mind, my oh-so-sappy bestfriend (see it runs in the circle) paid me a visit from Reviewlandia. Beforehand, he was telling me how his days turns him into a hopeless romantic once and all over again. When we have days like this, we result to either of these two options: drinking and singing. And since, I've quit, not from drinking but from the frequency of it, we resulted to singing. Believe me it's 80-20 we would sing our hearts out rahter than drown it with alcohol.

Usually we would do a duet or a quartet even when Bob and Dave are around, but this time I sit lousily on the sofa and listened, mindless. I then thought of how we so much love singing. We were not even close to good, but somehow we love standing in front of the mic stand hitting the notes, no matter how low or high it is. I think it's the feeling we get when we're singing. I watched my bestfriend press the remote with the number of his song, stepped in front of the mic stand and transform from a lonesome masochistic hopeless romantic into a mature loving hopeful romantic person in Fra Lippo Lippi's Light and Shade. See, when we sing we step into this trance, a world that starts from the first musical note of the song and ends with the last. Regardless of our present state, we build this stage wherein we are the antagonists and we play the role very well, irregardless of the tones and notes of the song, we know we play the part like a professional actor or singer in this matter. It's all in the state of our minds that we choose to create this temporary playground that we alone have the say, and the lyrics of the song of course. We allow the song's tone to manifest in our system, thus absorbing the feeling after the song ends.

It's more than singing. For people like us, it's a careful choice of creating an environment change in our present state of feelings. Regardless of how bad we can get and how poor our singing can be, what matters most to us is we have the courage to step up there, on stage, choose a song and sing it wholeheartedly.