In my current life, I do live in bad faith according to existentialism. I wake up at 5 every morning to go to work until around 1 or 2 and then I go to work at my second job around 4 and don't get home until 9 or later. I do this everyday aside from Tuesday's and Thursday's when I go to school. It's hard for me to find time to do anything, when all I really want to do is sleep whenever I can because I know I'll have to wake up and do it all again the next day. But, this is my choice. I make this choice because I don't want to have to worry about money while I'm in college and paying all of my bills. Both of my jobs are as a server which means great tips, but that also means I have to deal with angry, annoying customers on a regular basis which honestly just makes my job harder.
If I were to picture myself as a existential hero, I wouldn't change too much about my life because it's not a bad life, I'm happy for most of it. However, there are a few things I would change. For starters I would quick my morning job and open my availability at my night job so I would just be working at the one restaurant, which would give me the most money. Another thing I would change is I would start doing color guard again. It really is my passion and I'm great at it. The things that keep me from doing it now are that it is very expensive and to participate in an independent guard(a color guard out of high school) is extremely time consuming. I would also like to start coaching color guard again, I did when I first graduated but gave it up when I moved to Arizona. These changes would honestly make me feel like I would be living my life to the fullest.
Sunday, March 25, 2018
Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Socially Conscious Song - Chandelier
Link to Video
The song I picked is Chandelier, but not by Sia. The version I picked is by a cappella group called Twisted Measure. While I do like the original song by Sia, I feel like the a cappella version actually captures the lyrics of the song versus focusing on the music. Another reason why I like this song so much is there is no direct meaning to it and it can be interpreted almost to what you need it to be. What I interpret the song as is that you have all of these struggles and worries that keep you down but you just let all of them go and "swing from the chandelier". In one line they sing, "I'm gonna fly like a bird through the night, watch my tears as they dry" what they're saying is that once they let all of their problems go and do what they need to do for themselves they're free. When I first heard this song, I was a junior in high school and was at a low point in my life. I had heard Sia's version already, but when I heard the voices from Twisted Measure just bursting out these beautiful lyrics and sounds, I remember breaking down in tears and just thinking to myself, "I can do this, I can get through this." For that reason this song will always have a dear place in my heart. I've pasted a link to the video above and if you can, definitely give it a listen.
The song I picked is Chandelier, but not by Sia. The version I picked is by a cappella group called Twisted Measure. While I do like the original song by Sia, I feel like the a cappella version actually captures the lyrics of the song versus focusing on the music. Another reason why I like this song so much is there is no direct meaning to it and it can be interpreted almost to what you need it to be. What I interpret the song as is that you have all of these struggles and worries that keep you down but you just let all of them go and "swing from the chandelier". In one line they sing, "I'm gonna fly like a bird through the night, watch my tears as they dry" what they're saying is that once they let all of their problems go and do what they need to do for themselves they're free. When I first heard this song, I was a junior in high school and was at a low point in my life. I had heard Sia's version already, but when I heard the voices from Twisted Measure just bursting out these beautiful lyrics and sounds, I remember breaking down in tears and just thinking to myself, "I can do this, I can get through this." For that reason this song will always have a dear place in my heart. I've pasted a link to the video above and if you can, definitely give it a listen.
Poem Explication
The poem I've decided to analyze is called "Woman and War" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The poem is about World War I through a woman's perspective. The poem starts by comparing dogs and humans, "let dogs delight to bark and bite" which is basically saying let dogs be dogs by being ruff and act in their true nature. But, it then says that humans have to rise above the brute and have self-control to not fight one another, the poet explains that this is what we teach our children. The problem then comes in the second stanza when it's said "And then - dear God! you men, you wise, strong men, Our self-announced superiors in brain, Our peers in judgement, you go forth to war!" Wilcox is saying that after everything we've taught to young children about the wrong of hurting each other is all thrown away when the men of the nation, who the children look up to, do the exact opposite of what they were taught as children. She ends the poem by saying that if war is what the world has come to, then maybe women should raise their children from birth to be killers.
Honestly, I really liked this poem. It made me see a different perspective of war. At the bottom of the second stanza, Wilcox says that women battle everyday like men but their battle is uncertainty. She goes on to say "And when at best your victories reach our ears, There reaches with them to our pitying hearts The thought of countless homes made desolate And other women weeping for their dead." I had never thought about victories this way before I read these lines, and what she's basically saying is that even though the news of victory is brought to their side, on the other side there are women who had the same worries as their side and now have to face the news that their men are never coming home.
Honestly, I really liked this poem. It made me see a different perspective of war. At the bottom of the second stanza, Wilcox says that women battle everyday like men but their battle is uncertainty. She goes on to say "And when at best your victories reach our ears, There reaches with them to our pitying hearts The thought of countless homes made desolate And other women weeping for their dead." I had never thought about victories this way before I read these lines, and what she's basically saying is that even though the news of victory is brought to their side, on the other side there are women who had the same worries as their side and now have to face the news that their men are never coming home.
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