Singing Songs

What then is songwriting?

That's my first title to this article. But I intuit morally that I'm limiting again myself to the melodious music, whatever suits my ears for the time being. So I hastily turned and entitled it rather "Singing Songs" for a more broader discussion.

"I lost songwriting already from my youth. As an old person, there is no more singing and melody coming out of me. Perhaps most singing is just for expressing romantic love and its intricacies."

That's my first impression about what is songwriting. It caught me sunk within my inner world again of emotions and melodious music--away from meaningful songs!

It turned out what I'm playing repeatedly in my mind is a song no longer making meaning to my present situation but just a recollection of an already processed past and been let go. In short a broken heart repeating itself like a broken record.

This is where feeling and meaning reveals its ethical plot to us, and that we sing songs for life not to continually bog down our life.

We sing songs of worship. We sing joyful songs celebrating something. We sing when we wonder at life. We sing when we're in love, and mostly where most of us are always stuck. We dance. We make jolly rhymes even though it's becoming nonsensical, that gives more weirdness to the beat. As the Bible tells us, there is a time for everything.

Let meaning guide our feeling, so that we won't end up suicidal or even always depressed.

It belongs to the perfection of the moral or human good that the passions be governed by reason. -Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1767.

Now in reality, who doesn't play a love song in repeat until it hurts no more?

Well, a time to mourn a lost love, a failed one, etc. is needed since not crying it out, will make your life more miserable.

The truth though is that we are all in pain on this earth, but in heaven there will be no more tears.

It's just that there has to be a stop at crying even we're still here on earth, since our heart and soul is a limited entity in its capacity for loneliness.

That being said, you can enjoy the music you love listening to provided it's just a background music, not much affecting your heart and soul, marveling at he beauty of the musical arrangement.

For only in heaven will all our tears be wiped out.