"To you Pisces I give the most difficult task of all. I ask you to collect all of man's sorrow and return it to me. Your tears are to be ultimately My tears. The sorrow you will absorb is the effect of man's misunderstanding My Idea, but you are to give him compassion that he may try again. For this the most difficult task of all I give the greatest gift of all. You will be the only one of My twelve children to understand Me. But this gift of understanding is for you, Pisces, for when you try to spread it to man he will not listen."

The above is taken by Martin Schulman's Sun Signs Allegory, a beautiful description of the 12 signs of the zodiac as 12 children appointed by an ambiguous God, each with his unique gift and task for the world.

That must be why I cry so much and so easily, and why my taste for music veers towards sad love songs and heart-rending R&B tunes.

I bought Ken Hirai's 10th Anniversary Compilation today (that's him on the right pic). This singer is seriously talented. I can't understand Japanese, but his voice is so soothing, so melodious, so mellow. In particular I am in love with his single "Hitomi Wo Tojite" (I Close My Eyes). It is essentially a sad love song, speaking of having the strength to endure love's loss and pain, because of the strength that that same love bestowed.