Do You Value Your Life?
Playlist
10 Years – Wasteland
30 Seconds to Mars – From Yesterday
Atreyu – Becoming the Bull
Anberlin – dismantle.repair.
Trapt – Headstrong
Kanye West – Good Life
Life is Beautiful - Sixx AM
I have a great passion in music and I look at how I can relate to songs and what songs have, I guess, affected me so far in my life. These songs that I have chosen are both songs that will never get old for me to listen to and songs that reflect me and who I am as a person. I always listen to the lyrics and try and pick out parts that I can relate to well or parts that kind of describe me. Such as:
The song Life is Beautiful by Sixx AM; there is a part of the song that says, "You can't quit until you try, You can't learn to tell the truth until you lie, You gotta laugh when you're the joke..." I find this to be so true in life and how I carry myself. You are always going to pull jokes on others and laugh but it shows your true character if you laugh when the tables are turned and laugh when you’re the joke. Also the song kind of just shows how you can't really know what is right and how you should do things until you do it the wrong way and learn from your mistakes. But even though you might end up with failure you at least tried and you gained some sort of knowledge in the process. That’s at least how I think and go about things.
In Atreyu's song "Becoming the Bull", there is a part that goes, “seems like fate is pulling you, decisions have to be made. The best path is the hardest earned. Back and forth the struggle consumes us all..." I really like the part where they say that “the best path is the hardest earned� which is exactly how I feel about everyone’s path toward a goal. I believe that when you set goals in life no matter how long or short they may be you are going to run in to obstacles or Y's in the road, and most people pick the easy path. I think that more times than not the better choice in your path you take maybe be very tough and "the hardest earned" but in the end it is worth the reward. This way that I think is also kind of shown in Robert Frost's "The Road Less Traveled", which I have posted below.
Quotes
Say to them,
Say to the down-keepers,
the sun-slappers,
the self-soilers,
the harmony-hushers,
"even if you are not ready for the day
it cannot always be night."
You will be right.
For that is the hard home-run.
Live not for the battles won.
Live not for the-end-of-the-song.
Live in the along.
--Gwendolyn Brooks
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
--Robert Frost
Unlike songs I am not really a quote person like some people are. Most of my quotes are funny lines from movies or comedians but sometimes I will stumble upon a quote that strikes me and connects with me like music usually does. One example of this is the quote that I have from Gwendolyn Brooks. This quote just reminds me of myself and how even when things are against you and people say you can't do something or you can't make a difference you can't listen to them but instead believe in yourself. It's just like Brooks says, "You will be right, for that is the hard home-run". You need to preserve and live for what you believe in and do what you can to make this life all it can be. That’s why I have also put up the picture of Brett Favre. It is his perseverance and drive to do what he wanted to do for as long as he has that makes him the very successful and highly respected quarterback that he is today. I think I share some of that drive and perseverance too just in different aspects of my life such as school future plans, goals, and aspirations. The other two pictures are just pictures that I like taking when I go places because I always have the goal of living in that kind scene with mountains and water and nature surrounding me. All these songs, quotes, and pictures show a little bit of me, who I am and who I want to be and that is why I picked the millennium project goals I did. With the main goal being to ensure environmental sustainability because I like the natural environment, like the last two pictures, and I want that around for many years to come. Therefore we have to change some of the ways we as people live our lives so we can preserve those places.
