Modern Love

Last night, while my mum was listening to songs, i overheard a "song".

<驛> by 林慧萍 - 黃舒駿

This song was very special. It cannot be considered a song until the very end. The song started of with a man, using his very emotional voice to tell out a very emotional story. When I first heard this "song"over the radio (at about 5am where there are no dee-jays), i was very touched by the story. I was totally clueless about the song as it was a man who narrates the story and a woman who sang the song. I gave up searching for this song after some time. Just when i gave up, the song appeared over the radio again. This time round, though I am still very touched by the story, but i felt that there is something the writer of this song is trying to tell.

I thought of posting the story here, but in the end I decided not :)
After letting some of my close ones to listen, I discovered that not many can really understand the message behind, so i should not make my blog so boring.

Will just express my thinking here :D

We don't hear much touching love stories from people around us, but we do hear alot of break-ups instead. Yes, this is Modern Love.

"So SWEEET!!!", " I LOVE LOVE LOVE YOU!" , "I miss you!", etc.

These words had been used excessively and readily between couples (me too). This is the way we use to love each other. Using spoken words and some special actions that people percieve as "sweet", "lovely". We don't realise it. But this may be one of the reasons for our rigidity in our "Modern Love". Not many of them are ready to commit to what they say and therefore resulting in this rigidity.

If you do hear love stories from the past (old grandmother,grandfather stories), you will realise that they don't say the three words to each other, nor do they do something special. However, their love stories are much more touching than ours. They expressed their love through something that they do in their everday life. They don't count their days as couples together, all they care is to walk towards the end of their life with their partner. It is the totally opposite of the modern love.

Their love is far more resilient than ours. How amazing and ironic it is for a couple which does not mentioned about the three words to last longer than a sweet couple which tells their partner how much they love each other.

It could be easily explained that we do not have much time in this fast moving society to express our love slowly (like through everyday life). We have so much to do that it becomes so convenient to say the three words and get on to what we are doing.

Well, Chor Chuan is standing in the position of a man who believes in the past but much influenced by the present. There could be much more perceptions and angles in looking at this topic.


To my love one: You might not realise but everything i do is because i love you...