The Boy Who Sang to Every Word

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) Todos os direitos reservados a Meire Marion.

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