Just a Gigolo

 "The best way out is through"

~ Robert Frost

I'm sure you are familiar with the song Just a Gigolo.You may be a fan of the David Lee Roth/Van Halen version or the Louis Prima offering. Both are upbeat,swing style renderings of this classic.

Did you know that this is actually a very sad song?

It was actually written sometime around 1930 and tells the story of  the social collapse experienced in Austria after World War I. The story is about a young soldier ,who after the war, finds that the only way he can earn a living is to hire himself as a dance partner, a gigolo.

Okay David, thanks for the lesson in music history.

Actually, I am afraid that this is a portend of things to come.

Once this quarantine is lifted,most people will eventually return to their jobs. Slowly the economy will pick up and life will begin to appear normal. There will however be those that will find that the jobs that they once held no longer exist. The companies that they once worked for are gone.

The position in life that they had attained has vanished.

We may be one of those people.

Or it may be a spouse or child, or sibling or friend.

None of us will be untouched by this epidemic (the aftermath not the virus!).

Some of us will be deemed too old to hire.

Others will find that there just aren't jobs.

Still many more will find that all of their prior experience and training are virtually worthless.

There will be,I'm afraid, an abundance of gigolos searching for dance partners. There is nothing upbeat and lighthearted about that.

The pandemic was frightening.

The fallout I fear will horrifying!

Shavua Tov!