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Jose D. TeodoroEnglish Comp 1Proposal Essay
Relax = Music
Why do we feel the same way almost every day? We wake up every
morning usuallyat the same time, and then we go about performing
the same activities all day, every day.Things appear non-changing
and time is just ticking away from our present. Our livesseem to be
governed by schedules and routines.
There is a problem in our modern society. People are getting
more stressed out andunhappiness levels are constantly rising. We
are continuously struck with bad newsabout wars and terrorism, and
the definition of "economy" is changing to a negative one.
Pretty much anything we listen to is becoming a source of
worries and stress. As aconsequence, the majority of people live in
a state of numbness and stress.
So in this world of evil and unhappiness, the universe provides
us with
There is a source of energy that lets us cope with our daily
routines and see them from adifferent perspective. The source of
energy I am talking about is Music.
We have all experienced the effects of music. We remember what
we felt when wewere dancing with the person we love to the sound of
a song. We can remember our
experience in a concert that gave us a sense of peace and
tranquility. But there issomething hidden in the art of music that
we currently underestimate, mainly becausewe do not know it.
The first thing we have to understand is that Music is nature.
Around 600 B.C.Pythagoras discovered a pattern in sound waves that
he called Octaves. These patternsrepresented a set of vibratory
waves that produced what we now refer to as musicnotes. This
discovery is important because it was the first scientific proof
that music isan inherent element of life itself, because it is a
property of reality.
According to Dictionary.com, "music" is the
"artofsoundin time that expresses ideas and emotions in
significant forms through theelements of rhythm, melody,
harmony,andcolor".
I am a musician and, as any other musician out there, I know how
it feels when musicgoes through you. Playing music is a different
experience than just listening to it. Musicis a two part
process.
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music accelerate your brainwaves into a more stressed state of
mind instead of a morepeacefull one.
In my experience as a music lover and musician, I know first
hand the effects of the
music I am refering to. When everything else seems to be heading
a negative way or theworld around us portray a world of dispair and
inmorality, I take my ipod and conciousof what my "self" needs I
play a song that will make me reflect about my situation andthe
situation around me. I immediately start thinking about the
beautiful things thatsurround me and start appreciating the fact
the I have a life.Deadlines, routines, cities, cars, fears,
diseases, poverty, hardships, loneliness, stress,and unhapiness
suddenly flushed away for the period of time that song last. The
onlything that seems important throughout the lenght of the song is
the fact of life. It followsthat music has an undeniable power in
our reality, and however we decide to explore it,music will always
bring that unexplainable feeling that we need so much today.
Beaware of what you listen to, be aware of how you feel when you
listen to music, and be
aware of the energy it provides and the fuel it shares.As the
famous philosopher Descartes said after months of studying the
reality of our"self", "I am a thinking being. I think, therefore I
exist." Our thought and our mind is themost powerful tool we posses
and our reality is based of what we make of it.
