Kenny Chesney: Young

The song that this video is about characterizes to a certain extent what it's like to be young. When I listen to this song it takes me back to the last four years of my life, a place where I love to go. I guess when you just sit back and listen to the lyrics in the song it does a good job of reflecting what it means to be young, the things that you do, how you act and what it feels like. To me to be young is to be innocent and brash, not knowing consequences and not really caring about them even if you do. You see, cause when your young you just do things to do them, for hell of it ya know. Weather is's hanging road signs from the schools flag pole or spray painting your name on the water tower your not really caring what tomarrow will bring, but rather are just living in the moment. I believe Kenny Chesney, the person who sang this song, sums it up perfect when he said, "The more you live, the more you know, and the more you experience, the more you reflect on everything around you. You become more aware, whether you want to or not." And as we grow older we find ourselfs looking back more and more often wondering how felt to be young so innocent. When your in high school you hear people say "When it's over you will look back on it and say those were the best days of my life", and when you hear that you just kind of laugh because you dont think it's true. But now that my high school days are behind me I realize I will never be around those people as much as I was then, which is crazy and depressing to think of at the same time because it means your growing up, thuse no longer "young". It's at this moment that I think, why? Why do we have to grow up? Dont get me wrong I think you should want to be successful, but at what price? Hopefully not our happiness. Think of it this way, whould you say I'm not successful if I droped out of college to be a bartender in the bahammas, or go work on the farm for the rest of my life? I think society now a days bases success to much on how much money you have in your pocket or what piece of paper you have framed on your wall. Where does happiness come into play? Because to be young to a certain extent is to be happy. So therefore I hope I never "grow up".

I had always viewed anything that I had to do for school as work. Before college I really didn't have that many options as to what classes I wanted to take, so having a predominately predetermined class schedule I usually wasn't too excited to be in certain classes so therefore whenever I was assigned homework it didn't interest me, I was just going through the motions. Although the work was easier than college it wasn't very exiting. Now being in college and for the most part being able to take whichever class you want to gives me a sense of freedom when it comes to class work, or rather a breath of fresh air. The homework I get assigned now is that of a class I selected and if I picked that class it's most likely a subject that I'm interested in so therefore I really can't complain all too much. When I sit down to do the work now I don’t really look at the work as if it were manual labor, rather as an opportunity to explore and learn about something I'm interested in. So now than I'm in college I look at class work or homework with a sense of individualization unlike in high school where the work gives you more of a general feel for education when compared to the in depth view and analysis of a college course. So now when I look at the big picture I have ultimately came to the conclusion that I have to more than just pass the next test or study a subject but rather have to be consumed by the work and fully know and understand all of the material I'm being fed so I can be successful in the days that lie ahead.

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"Good writers are good readers. They read often and from a wide variety of sources. As they read, or after they finish a selection, they note down interesting passages or write a response to the reading in a journal. Good writers pay attention to the author's style and note the techniques the author uses to make his or her points." - Robert Atwan

I choose this quote because I feel it is very true and also relates to me through past expierences. I believe that a good writer is well rounded in the art of litature. What I mean by this is that a writer, espically a good one would pay attention to the slightest details when it comes to reading, for example they would note how a sports columnist builds up the atmosphere of a big game and how he delivers the result. In my mind a good writer never turns off his talent or passion for litature itself, even when reading the sunday paper he or she would find themself breaking down and analyzing every column and article. This bids true for me when I read in my spare time, I find myself writing certain things down in a note book, for example when I read Angels and Demons by Dan Brown everytime the book took a twist or turn I wrote it down and this helped me fully understand the authors style of writing and how he builds up the storyline throughout the novel. This would make me believe that a good writer would practice these techniques more often, but I think that it would almost be automatic, that they wouldn't realize what they are doin, that it would be second nature to them. I also think that how a good writer becomes one is through reading, because without reading a variety of material they wouln't develop key techniques that other good writers that came before used and practiced.

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