Old Is Gold

I was reading the blogs posted by the Austin Community, and some of them are informative, interesting, analytical, thought provoking, and humorous making me chuckle and laugh to my heart’s content. Blogging has certainly opened the doors widely to many of us to express ourselves to share the same platform as the journalists. Yet for a moment, I felt I was an Outsider. This word took me to one of my favourite songs sung by Cliff Richard, and my thoughts started churning in the direction of songs and music.

Anyone who has an ear for music would vouch the immense pleasure it gives and plays a role of a companion in moments of loneliness. The songs sung by Jim Reeves with his deep and resonance voice; those by Frank Sinatra; by Cliff Richard; by Julio Iglesias and host of others lift anyone into a different world.

The Western Classical with their Serenades; the Guitars, the saxophones, the pianos, the violins, and various other musical instruments sooth your ears. Though the rock and the pop make you gyrate your body with rhythm, the solo songs continue to pierce your heart. The age-old songs are immortal.

And that brings me to the Indian music world. The Classical, the instrumental and the vocal, have a great influence on the connoisseurs. Yet it is the Film songs that appeal to the masses. In this part of the world too, the old songs continue to be melodious and unforgettable. I derive pleasure in singing them.

And if this is true in the music world, so it is in the case of family values, in the characteristics of eminent personalities, and the selfless qualities of leaders who guided the masses during their period.

It is said Old is Gold. Could this maxim be true a decade hence?