End of day

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The village is in the middle of having dinner. If you go up the hill, you can hear loud voices and laughter from people's gardens from all directions. Dinners are noisy here. People come from the fields and are catching up. Towards the end women often start singing. In the evening it is always those quiet songs full of sorrow that everything here, joy, love, life is only temporary.

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What a pretty photo and a nice atmosphere. Except I don't like the part about singing a bunch of sad songs. I like songs I can relate to, though, so maybe singing about sad things is a way of getting people to express empathy in these situations, which can be a good thing.

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The songs are not really sad. They have a special world for it here in Romanian, which is "dor". I understand that it is something like a mixture of longing, nostalgia and melancholy not very different from Portuguese "saudade" I think. So they call these songs "cantec de dor" here, which is "song of dor".