Hello my friends #musiclovers I hope everything is going well at the beginning of the week and month for you and your environment 💐.We start a new month and with it we always have expectations, resolutions or keep moving forward in our goals; it is as if each start invites us to renew ourselves and gives us the opportunity to do things better every day. But what about those who don't have the chance anymore and leave for eternal sleep? What are their farewells like? Do they prepare for that moment?

For those of us who remain here, these are moments of mourning, recollection, evaluation of life, what we have lived, memories of that loved one, so it is normal that we miss that loved one, we get the best out of him/her and we pay tribute to him/her according to what he/she wanted in life or how he/she imagined "a last goodbye" to be, and this is very nice if we consider that he/she was a loved one or left an impact on the lives of others. Unfortunately in my country (because I don't know if it happens in other places), this tradition has been distorted and touching mainly on the theme of music, friends is something that has gotten out of control.

It turns out that apart from some ritual or tribute (which is respected) that the person can be done to say goodbye to this earthly world, it is fine and I even applaud it; many times we have seen that if the person was an athlete a tribute is paid in the place where he or she practiced sport and so on with many other things BUT what does music have to do with it? Well, now people have taken to throwing a party (I am not exaggerating) at the place of the wake.

The first thing they do is hire a sound system, known as minitecas (those professional sound systems) and play at full volume "with the music that the person liked". From my experience watching from afar because I don't share this kind of rituals, I see that the tastes are taken to the rhythms of vallenatos and salsa. So we can listen to famous groups or singers like "Tito Rojas or Diomedes Díaz".These sounds are placed in the middle of the wake, no matter if it is in a house or a special place and the "celebration" begins with these devices at full volume.

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¿Estoy de acuerdo con eso?

Do you agree with that? In my very personal and objective opinion, obviously not. I agree that they should serenade the deceased, even if there is a light instrumental or spiritual background music that leads to prayer, silence and examination of conscience that we do when we are faced with this reality, this is nice because it would relax us to go through this difficult and irreparable moment of the loss of a loved one.

But from this point to placing equipment, music groups, the volume at a volume that would raise the dead person himself, if the wake lasts 2 days, it is two days of this din where neither the relatives nor those who are close to them can rest, I think it is an exaggeration, therefore I think it is something that should be regulated and even sanctioned if it is not complied with because I consider that these final hours of the present body are not being respected.

I think that death has become the perfect excuse to make these celebrations in this way, because it has nothing to do with culture, religion or tradition, this behaviour breaks all the rules. Now, do you want music at your wake? Well, I respect that, but this should not be a cause for celebration, as this behaviour is out of control and is not appropriate for a wake. So choose your musical repertoire wisely before they play something you wouldn't have liked 😋. For now, speaking of death and being #MusicalMonday I start my week listening to Eternal Love by Rocío Durcal to remember those departed loved ones who loved good music.