There once was a boy who sang to every word
anyone said. It really didn’t matter what language the word was from; he knew a
tune.
Sometimes the songs were cool; others a bit
rude and vulgar. Most of his friends were used to it, but the strangers he met
thought it was a bit weird that this boy could not control his musical side.
It
didn’t matter where he was; at church, at home, the supermarket, the classroom,
the zoo or the bathroom. Whenever someone said something he would sing.
Sometimes there would also be a little dance movement along with it.
After some time his family and friends started
getting tired of this bizarre involuntary act. There were some situations where
singing was not appropriate and they were very ashamed of being around him.
Like the time when they were at a teacher´s wake and he started singing ` I´m a
bitch. I´m a bitch and the bitch is back´ because some one had said the teacher
was a real bitch but she could teach. His friends wanted to die.
Or the other time when he and his mom were at a
doctor consultation and when his mom greeted the doctor with a cheerful ´hello
doctor´, he let out a loud ´doctor, doctor give me the news. I´ve got a bad
case of lovin´you´. For this he was grounded for a week.
No one knew how to help him and he became a
prime study at the Institute of Psychology in his town. He would go visit the
specialists once a month. After some time they noticed that he started covering
his mouth whenever a song dared to come out. It was making him miserable. And
unfortunately, there was nothing they could do.
Most of his friends stopped inviting him out.
He started getting in trouble at school because the teachers kept kicking him
out of the class. He spent his breaks in the library alone; there he would not
be singing because total silence was the rule.
As time went by, the older he got the lonelier
he felt. He managed to get a job where he could work at home and really didn´t
need to interact with people personally only via email. He also got a college
degree from another state studying from his computer. He could watch the
classes on line and only needed to go to the school whenever there was an exam
and he was safe then for total silence was the rule.
Life was not easy for this, now, young man. One
afternoon, he was having trouble with his computer; therefore, he called a
technician to make a house call.
It was love at first sight. When he opened the
door and the blond young technician said `Hello´ the young man started singing
`hello, is it me your looking for´. The technician grinned and answered in a
high soprano tune `You had me at hello´.
And so it goes to show you never can tell. Our
young singer and the technician fell in love and sang to each other from there
on and were enviously happy. ` Happy. Happy. Happy. Happy. Clap along if you
feel like a room without a roof. Because I´m happy.´
(Written November 6, 2014)
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