My Love/Hate Relationship with Sappy Sad Songs
I have a fiercely intense love/hate relationship with super sad songs. Our radio station here likes to over play them. Call emotions a currency in my life. Unless I’m willing to spend it on the song a perfectly good sad song will make me angry after I’ve heard it fifty times. It’s the reason I loathe the “Christmas Shoes Song” that everyone likes to sing all the time. My tear strings have been pulled one too many times, and the currency has been spent regarding the lyrics. These songs always revolve around love lost and death. The first time I heard “He was Walking Her Home” By Mark Shultz http://youtu.be/_ODSx0UfAcA I got so emotional I almost had to pull the car over. It was hard to drive through my tears. I wanted to yell at God. But I began crying to Him, “I just don’t understand it! Why would you put people on this earth to love and then just have them torn from them when they die?” Had I...