emotional atyachar

As usual as it is, I was busy reading a book, "The nature of psyche" by Carl Gustav Jung, only this time in a park( not the park where couples sit and snuggle :P but a children's park) which afforded me the luxury of being outdoors and doing my favorite activity at the same time.

Two guys were sitting behind the bench opposite to me on the ground, almost hidden. When I approached to sit and read, the furtive look of one them to inquire as to who might disturb them at 3pm in the afternoon, gave me the feeling that they were trying to hide something, that something fishy was going on behind the bench. I almost thought that these people were getting stoned.

But I ignored them and sat down to read. And what a book it was. Amazing. The concept of assigning energies to the psyche as we do to physical objects was a novel one for me and simply blew my mind. I got completely engrossed, when suddenly I heard "…..aaja mujhe baahon mein bharle, inn faaslon ko ab mitale…."(I do not wish to translate this).

I really do not remember what my reaction was( all  I remember is that I did not scowl, for I know all too well that there  has been a proliferation of such sentimental songs these days). But it brings me to the question as to why such songs are  on the rise these days and what is it in them that people literally get sappy on hearing such songs?

Has anybody realized that such songs actually make you associate things and persons with them and start a whirlwind of thoughts which usually touch the past and future? I say so since I too have been a victim of such songs. I say a victim since they make you think things which you normally would not do. Just take for example the hero singing about sacrificing his life for just a look of the beloved. I mean who in the right mind would actually do such a foolish thing? They deeply affect the psyche of people. They distort realities by creating hopes, frustrations, unwarranted expectations, happiness, fears and emotions of the like.

Everyone wishes to be loved and more so in a romantic way. And that is where these songs attack the individual. But with the immaturity and foolish concepts of love that we possess, we are more at a risk of falling deep into the hole  than being just in our relationships. Because again, they make you think things which you normally would not think, they make you expect things which you normally would not expect. And attached with those songs usually is a very strong image of the beloved.

All I wish to say that we need to be aware of such songs, with no intention of mine to condemn the listeners. In fact I enjoy hearing such songs occasionally myself. But we need to be aware of the effect they have on us and our relationships.

I wonder how Carl Gustav Jung would have rattled in his grave on hearing such songs.