The troubadour had stopped singing but his songs are still being played and listened to by the generation who caught his music. His craft was not abandoned but continuously flow as a gift to the succeeding generations of troubadours and music lovers.
It’s just sad that many past troubadours were left into oblivion. Like a fully utilized dispensable battery cell, fit for disposal into the waste bin, permanently deleted from our file folders. Why many of them leave our folds? What happened to those gifts they shared to us then? Did we fail to appreciate their gifts that inspired many of us back then? They walked away from the limelight without our knowing, yet their tribes were not diminished. The gift of music they shared to us is freely passed on to the succeeding young troubadours we have all observed.
What happens when gifts are converted into commodities? When gifts are exchanged for money, it ceases to be gifts, rather it emerge into commodities, wrapped into new packages, branded and displayed on the shelves of our malls, marketplaces and other buying stations. Many thought that if they have these gifts they can just utilize it for making money by converting it into commodities to be bought and sold, which is the dictated tempo of this known world. Gifts were now reduced into common goods waiting for consumers.
The troubadour’s gift is priceless. Attempts are being made by many talent agents to put price tag on these gifts. In the same manner that the Giver of the gifts gave His precious Gift to mankind, real gifts are always priceless.
And so many troubadours will still emerge in our midst coming from nowhere. Strangely enough, the tribes of our music makers never diminished, others went out but many are still coming in, new breeds of troubadours trying to perpetuate the cycle of passing and sharing the gift of music.
In the same way that the gift received from the Giver will find expression, it will overcome all kinds of obstacles- religious, economics, cultures and even boundaries created by conservative institution of education. No wonder, many TV networks are competing for audience share by coming up with programs in discovering and searching for raw and unpolished talents. And the world is surprised to see those gifts brewing in the lives of ordinary folks, even those unlettered ones whose gifts undiscovered, and these gifts are now viewed by the gaping world.