Second Chances

Second Chances - we all want and all need; God is good - is he not?

I need the weekend to PLEASE have more hours in it. Dear heavens, I feel like I have 800 trillion things to do and like 60 minutes to do them. That is how my 48 hour weekends feel - like I only have one hour. Where does all that time go? I mean sure I am definitely the most easily distracted person on the planet - okay, a wall could probably entertain me to prevent me from doing homework but so far that hasn't happened thankfully!

Oh so this explains too why I at least usually have a good 24-48 hours in between my blog entries!

Ok, now back to reality; I feel like I have gotten NO sleep, but in reality I really have! I don't know why I am so sleepy - but I am being good and trying not to use cafefine as a crutch either, however, I do not know how long that will last - I mean "Hi Kela! Welcome to College!" I guess I should wake up and smell the coffee huh? Anyways, there isn't too much for me to report on - nothing has really happened in the past like two days of my life, besides me attempting to get work done. I do however, have to figure out where I would like to take vacation to - I don't like making those kinds of decisions because I'm flexible about all that - I'm not picky I love traveling - so hey people any ideas are welcome!!

I was reading in a book for my seminar class last night - and there were some very interesting comments I found. (of course that was basically reading that pages for the third time because I couldn't focus and really pay attention to what my eyes were seeing - oops) The following paragraph really had be pause and think about what was being expressed:

"The age of Mozart and Hayden, or even Mahler and Debussy, [only on of those people do I actually know who they are] may seem distant to us, but the questions of human identity and self-understanding that such music confronts are also our own. They are not, to be sure, obviously concerned with race, class, or gender. From this, one might conclude that classical music is ideological, guilty of covering up the material tensions of social life. But one might also conclude that this music deals instead with the battles of race, class, and gender are won, or simply those inner moments of anxiety, emptiness, or sheer wonder that are not addressed by the mere political. ... classical music retains the capacity to shed the social baggage that has often weighed it down."

I think this is true no just for the "classical music." I believe that even in today's popular music genre a lot of the dame fundamental questions are dealt with. I have always see music - to me at least - as a form of expression when and where words would fail. There are so many times where what I want to say or share I can never verbalize, but there may be a piece of music, or a specific popular song in which I can relate to so well that I feel I might as well have written it, or be singing it to get my point across. People today are so concerned with being politically correct - well what defines one aspect or form of expression more correct than another? Music whether classified as a "classical" piece or the modern songs you might hear on the radio - everyone is so concerned with offending someone here or there, that no one will get to the foundation of the musical emotion that one is trying to actually express. There is so much to take away from what is "good, evil, and classical music" in this "postmodern world" in which we live. But we have to take the time to sit back and dig for what we are searching for and stop essentially "walking on eggshells" to reach the conclusion that is waiting to be found.

....don't you think?....