Oi! A Bear Stole my Expresso Macchiato

Time flies by fast... Just yesterday I was 4 years old, just starting out music for the first time.  The next thing I know, I'm about to turn 18 and make my new life in college . Maybe if I blink one more time , I will be 28 years old and have released a big hit .  Who knows.   The possibilities and gateways to such are endless . Anyways, that aside. I'm certainly sure that literature will be a big part of my college journey and I've created some goals reflecting this.  I plan to read at least a novel every summer for the next ten years.  I've also created a list of some novels I should start with , in hopes of finish these quickly and finding more " gems " of novels in the future. - Three Men in a Boat  by Jerome K. Jerome There will definitely be stressful times in the long road ahead so any novel that is listed as a comedic hit would be a saviour for my mental health. - The Periodic Table by Primo Levi As someone who is going to be aiming for medic...

Hello all ,  As you guys may know, I really love music .  Like really love . In fact, I love it so much that I planned on teaching myself how to compose and somehow ended up wasting 7 months, waiting for Godot . Anyways now ( putting aside my laziness ), let's move onward After recently finishing the poetry unit in Ms. Knudson's class , I feel like I really miss poetry   ( Absolutely not the essays we had to write on them though, screw those ). The reason being that poetry , in a way, is closer to music than anything else really is. The words and the phrases are reminscent of lyric bars in a song, except without any musical notes .  In fact, when you hear the word " ballad ," what two things does it pertain to?   Music and Poetry This is because ballad poems are extremely lyrical and very song-like , hence why it is called a ballad, like the music type ( which is the type I'm concerningly obssesed over ).  When you read a ballad poem, you wou...

Here's something that I've never told anybody, not even myself .  I am apparently really fond of Greek mythology. (Yes I was that one guy who would binge all of the Percy Jackson books back in the day) And before anyone asks me as an enjoyer of video games,  Yes, I have played Hades . It is definitely a great game that I should have enjoyed more if I wasn't so bad at Roguelites . Anyhoos, moving on. The reason I mention all of this is because a certain poem caught my eye as I was scrolling through a gigantic list of poetry: " Eurydice " by Ocean Vuong One of the greek myths that I've been very intrigued about for a couple years now is the tragic story about Orpheus and Eurydice. Being someone who's very familiar with the myth, I can't help but recognize how Ocean Vuong reformulates it into a poem while incorporating his own style. Before I move on, I should give a little bit of background on Ocean Vuong . Vuong is a Vietnamese-American poet, essayist...

This saga is coming to a close.... (I swear it was 2020 just yesterday) In 3 months, I will have reached a new milestone in my life.  Not a small one, nor an easy one to face. Yes, it may be sad that I will part ways from the friends I currently know, but we made memories. Unremarkable memories like hanging out at cafes or holding jam sessions in my basement. And memories are ceaseless .  Recently after reading Siddartha, I realized how much I needed such radiant light in my eyes. I told myself that I would compose rock ballads ( because I'm concerningly obsessed with them ) in college, in hopes of being featured in a drama or movie in the future. However, I feel like my progress has been way slower than I'd like, maybe more like I basically haven't done anything.  I check my schedule and I'm like," Oh man, I'm so packed today, how bout' we try this tomorrow instead? " Well that would be fine, except this " tomorrow " I'm talking about be...

 Hello all!  I still haven't got much sleep recently, because apparently three coffees and a half was still somehow not enough to keep me awake. ...Just why? I'm still nerveracking over the fact that I almost got saturday school today from my economics class just from sleep deprivation. Anyone laughing? Haha....  ... No?  ... Just me? Ok. How about this.  Haven't you guys heard that the graveyard is the most popular tourist attraction on the planet right now?  Cause everyone's dying to get in there! Hahaha....haha...ha..............ha ....Still not laughing? ....No? ....Ok then well I give up These are all prime examples of what makes me laugh. Anything from failures or stupid misfortunes to the classic, infamous dad jokes. Now now, I know what you're thinking. "You must be a psychopath-weirdo hybrid to think those are funny." Well, not exactly. I'm just being  me . Everyone finds different things funny. Some people share in common the things that...

Upon studying complex relationships in my English class last week, I had come to a realization. People are more complicated than we observe. No, I don't mean that in terms of the 80 distinct organs in human anatomy. And no, I don't mean that in terms of the near 100 trillion connections in the brain and the 100 million neurons that make them up either.  Well maybe, but not really. Human connections with others takes the cake for this topic.  Now answer this simple question. What exactly do we learn in our psychology classes or lectures? (This may sound sudden and off-course. but trust me, it's not) Many would think at first glance that it has something to do with emotions and feelings . And while this is absolutely correct, this answer needs to be narrowed down. Sigmund Freud's Psychoanalytical Theory states that there are three levels of consciousness and with those levels are personality sections: Id, Ego , and Superego . The " Id " section operates at the...