Sometimes, I Cry

 Sometimes, I cry.

When I come across a song that moves me, I Google the artist and inevitably end up on their Wikipedia page.

A person's Wikipedia page can be illuminating, you'll learn what influenced them. That page can also be tragic, this typically happens when I find out the artist is dead. This hurts almost every time, but it hurts more when the artist could still perform today, because they were relatively young when they passed.

I don't know why but this makes me sad, but it's in a beautiful way. Maybe I'm so appreciative of their work, I'm sad I'll never get to see it live.

Maybe it's because their work was so great that they'll be immortalized, even after a short life. But more likely, it's because the world is cold and does not care about what you accomplish.

Inspiration: This thought was brought to you by Strasbourg / St. Denis by Roy Hargrove, a song I listen to often. It's widely regarded as a jazz standard and while listening to it recently I could hear why it is viewed that way. I imagined how great this song would sound live, then I remembered Roy passed away in 2018 at the age of 49 and my heart sank. So, this post is for him and the joy his work continues to bring to many ears.

So yeah, sometimes, I cry for the beautiful things, lost to this world.