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The Future

I am not sure what the future holds for me. I’d like to see myself finishing school within the next 5 years but I am not sure if that will happen. I do know one thing though, I want to be a creator. A musician, a filmmaker or an audio producer, anything that involves making something that wasn’t there before. 

I want my career to revolve around creating things because I want to look back at the work I’ve done. Some people go there whole lives and accomplish great things but those things might be hard to look back on. And if there is anything more important than the future, it’s the past. My goal is to be able to look back at my creations and their progress through my life. I feel like if I am able to achieve this, then I’ll be able to better understand what I am creating and why. It’s not that I don’t know what music is but there is definitely more that I can learn about why music is important to me. I hope to find these answers in the future, but yet again, maybe I won’t. 

If I can get a Mass Com certificate and get a job working in a studio, I think I’d be very happy. If that does’t happen then I’ll just have to do something else, but that’s ok because there are plenty of things that I haven’t created yet just waiting to be born, and that’s why I like the future.

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Music - The Invisible Art Form

Ludwig Van Beethoven once said, “Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.” Not all people may agree with this but Beethoven might have had a point. If we look at art as what sets humans apart from other animals, then music becomes much more important. Unlike paintings or photography, music is an invisible art form, however, we can still see it. Not in the air, but in our minds and through our emotions. And it is with this connection that music creates a personal painting for every individual listener.

These “paintings” can be created through lyrics in a song that tell a story or even just an instrumental song and the emotions it produces. This major aspect of music is why so many people rely on it for guidance through their lives, sometimes without even knowing it. If you’re having a bad day at work and you finally get to your car and turn on your music, your mind immediately creates a connection between current emotional state, and how the specific music makes you feel. So if used right, music works almost like a medicine for healing stress or anxiety.

“Music is the emotional life of most people.” This is a quote from the late Leonard Cohen and it speaks true. Some people claim that they don’t like or listen to any music, so it is hard for those people to draw emotions from music. Nevertheless, a person who doesn’t like music will still have an emotional reaction to it, good or bad. This is why music is such a strong art form.

I don’t love all music but I can find something appealing in every genre of music there is. Whether it’s Rock, Rap, Reggae, or Rhythm and Blues, I’ll find an artist or song that moves me in a positive way. In this day in age, the immense variety of music available at our fingertips gives us the opportunity to hear the sounds of past generations. I think this is important because the music from the past is part of the history of the past. I am also grateful to be alive in a time where creating music is easier than ever. I have a small home studio where I can record a full song one instrument at a time with minimal resources.

I will never understand the people who don’t like music, but I do know that for me and most of the rest of the world, music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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Why I am Attending College

Throughout my entire school career, staying focused on uninteresting topics has always been a challenge for me. I was told to keep my head up and to hold out until I was done with school, so I did. I may have not impressed much with my grades but I did finish on time. And now that I’m out of high school, I feel I still need more education to achieve what a want to in life. I think that college will be more of a productive and interesting place than high school was for me, given that I get to choose my own path instead of follow everyone else’s footsteps. I hope to gain knowledge in the field of mass communication and maybe discover a new interest. This is why I am exited to be starting a new year as a college student.