A romantic soul like Jorgo Papingji died today. I know that maybe a 20-year-old doesn't know the name, but for everyone else he is the stamp on the songs we sang in the days without TikTok, without Facebook, without the Internet.
Always when someone like the poet Papingji leaves this life, nostalgia is awakened, but also the sad question when you see statements on Google about an unreceived pension, about an unrewarded art, about a life that could have been better.
How angry! Too bad!
Jorgo Papingji gave us light in dark times. It gave us a boost in crazy times. He found the path to sing to love with a modern spirit, not numbing people with propaganda or, as is often the case today, with banality, which is just as much a dictatorship of flattery.
Of course, no one gets out of this life alive, but there are some people like Jorgo, who leave behind the songs to speak for them. Not the words, not the speeches of the farewell day, maybe not even their life itself, there is not much to tell, but that unlived life, which came out through beautiful lyrics in songs. Which then became ours, wrapped memories and moments of hundreds and thousands of Albanians everywhere, that they still remember today.
Here, for example, is the chorus of "I love you, life", sung by Ema Qazimi. Listen, listen a little and you will understand me!
