You Are My Sunshine

You are my sunshine
My only sunshine
You make me happy
When skies are grey
You'll never know, dear
How much I love you
Please don't take my sunshine away

I was thinking of writing about sunshine, and this nursery rhyme came into my mind. Gosh..I had always loved this song ever since I was a little kid. There were numerous favourite rhymes as well, but I'll write about them some day.

"You Are My Sunshine" keeps me cheery everytime I sing it. During my much younger days, I would sing it loud and I could have sang that to Sis when she was a baby. As I grew older, I sang it softer till it becomes just a hum or sang it louder IN my mind alone. I think I sang it to a couple of people on separate occasions - Inspector, close colleagues, my 'heng tais' - and it tickled them. Once in a blue moon is fine, but not often. Inspector already thinks that I'm childish and immature, I don't think I should aggravate it!

It's tiresome to be an adult when sometimes I just want to let out the child in me. The child who loves Care Bears and Smurfs. The child who does a little skip when she walks. The child who jumps around in joy. The child who loves playing in the rain. The child who cares less about being hurt or taken for granted. The child who thinks that everything is like an adventure. I let her out every once a while. Well... Perhaps a little bit too much at some point of time. I feel free when she's free. But reality check, I'm turning 26 this year. I have to act like my age. I have to act mature. "Grow up a bit, can or not?", some people keep telling me. That exhausts me and annoys the hell out of me, you know. I don't want to imagine how will it be like if I really do live up to 81 years. But don't you feel like me sometimes? Just be gay and merry and forget about responsibilities and burdens once a while? I guess that's what holidays are for, huh.

By the way, do you know that "You Are My Sunshine" is actually a sad song about heartbreak? All my life, I thought it's a happy song!! I shouldn't have checked out its origins, that kind of ruined its image, especially it being a nursery rhyme, don't you think so? And believe it or not, it's an official song for Louisiana. What the heck? I sure hope the people living in Louisiana are all not brokenhearted..

Oh well, I'm still a kid at heart. So it's still a happy song for me. I'm erasing these new facts I found, out from my mind.. *chanting* It's a very happy song! It's a very happy song!

You are my sunshine
My only sunshine
You make me happy
When skies are grey
You'll never know, dear
How much I love you
Please don't take my sunshine away