2023-05-04 04:00:58
…One by one we are the sound, but together the power,
Who, clenched in a fist, can topple mountains…
Still under the influence of the choir show that took place on Sunday, I want to somehow transfer this feeling to the upcoming national holiday of Latvia, and to extend the text of “Morning and evening songs” by Raimonds Tigula and Rasa Bugavičutes-Pēce – “one by one we are a word, but together we are a sound”.
Such strength and unity – both in the songs and in the singers – might also be felt in the show, of course, with the determination to achieve the goal – to sing in such a way that every hour and minute spent in rehearsal paid off. Not in money, of course, because it is impossible to pay it at all. Power is needed to get to the countryside for a couple, ten, thirty or more kilometers to a rehearsal to sing even when the mind does not feel like it, to sing, because otherwise there will be nowhere to sing – there will be no choir, dance group, theater… Every single one is important in this movement, because that’s how we get forward both in its strength and in the common tradition of the people. And also the power of songs plays a big role in its preservation; those allowed and forbidden songs that still remind us that there were different times in the past. It is significant that the words of several hard-to-sing songs talked regarding exactly that – regarding Latvia, regarding the motherland, regarding dark forces that are turning its face…
Here we come to those 33 years, which, spent in freedom, still remind us that peace is illusory, but evil is real and very close. And once more, strength is needed to force yourself to think, evaluate and analyze, to prevent the first slogan or social network headline from blowing up and running along, shouting out loud – “me too, I think so too”, and “what I hear, I speak” . And so for 33 years.
Is it bad that freedom is also to be able to say whatever comes to mind?! Not bad. It is just so good that you can not think regarding it, just like regarding what air you breathe, what thoughts you think, what Latvian articles you write in your gloves or what book you read. Or, for example, what do you sing…
Just know what a little restless mind is regarding?! That, not wanting to force ourselves to think, to understand the meaning and connections of things and events, we become influenced, jerked around like little toy dolls. That, even without realizing it and unwillingly, by speaking what “foreign people speak”, we can gradually lose once more both the freedom to speak and sing, to think freely and to live in a free country… Our country, our Latvia, its freedom is a precious prize that each of us must know how to receive and protect.
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