These Are All the Many Changes in My Life

Changes occur when you let yourself know the real you or let’s just say find the real you. That had happened to me during my late high school life. I am happy to meet friends and people who had changed me to who I am now. It was just yesterday when I was so tactless, very frank and perfectionist enough. But now, I have learned to think of others and adjust to my fellow students as well as the other people around me. It has been two years ago when I seldom accept the opinions and suggestions of others and let their voices sound like nothing to me.

However, I am not really that bad at all. Those negative attitudes of mine only appear or show during group activities and group works. On the other hand, during individual performances I encounter no back fights and that was the main reason why I like to work alone; to avoid hearing negative comments about me that would absolutely hurt my ego. But as time passes by, I met friends and people who changed and helped me develop my personality. They made me realize that others do not appreciate my negative side. Since then, I have learned to adjust and cope up with my shortcomings. I thank those people who taught me to be a simple me in a way others would not hate me.

As what my teacher had said, “Do not be afraid to commit mistakes because you will learn from It.”, very well said! I’ve just proven that previously. After it, I learned that no man is an island and therefore I am not alone.

Michelle Y. Castidad

Mind or Heart

It has been a common question that we usually hear or say. Whether it is in beauty contests or in various debates. Maybe today or who knows, tomorrow? Someone will ask you, what does truly matter? mind or the heart?

What is in the Mind? The common question that I can define. It is the source of all the facts but not the truth. Something that we can rely on in formulating wars but not truce. In this factory, everything is made, Answers in tests, quizzes and even charades. Indeed, the mind helps us in reaching the answers to logical trades.

On the other hand, what can the heart do? It translates answers to something that’s true. True to the mind and true for everyone, for through our hearts, We can be successful. The heart contains secrets that will be kept. It never is loud and it never dictates it’s always there and silently waits.

Indeed, If I were to choose between these two, I’d choose the heart over the mind…For I believe that whoever we are or wherever we are today, It’s because we followed our heart’s beating and not our mind’s dictating.

The Music Within

Music is a form of entertainment, a self-expression and even an influence. Through music, we can be able to relate ourselves or the circumstances we are in by simply listening to any genre of music that is appropriate to what we are feeling in a particular moment. Rock music and mellow music are the types of music we usually listen to, mostly be teenagers.

Rock music, as we all know, exhibits loudness and sometimes earsplitting sounds which demand a physical response. What more is that it also projects one's own dreams and desires, either physically, emotionally or mentally. The rhythm of rock music triggers listeners to go with the flow of the music and release inhibitions causing negative physical activities. Why does this cause negative physical activities? It is because people who were compelled by the beat or patterns of rock music tend to be unruly and wild since they want to convey real emotions through their actions. A very good example of this is the band itself. Nowadays, rock music is indeed popular and almost all teenagers are well-acquainted with it.

On the other hand, mellow music is a soft-listening type of music unlike rock music which is very blatant in its way of sound. Mellow music can calmly evoke emotions and memories. It can also be a therapy since it can relax our senses. Mellow music helps ease stress and tensions, thus, a lot of people also prefer the essence of mellow music playing in their heads.

In conclusion, music is not just something that we listen to. It is what we use to express our feelings, mend a broken heart or just something we need for us to be able to focus on our daily activities. Music is a common language that bonds people together despite of the different languages spoken by various people around the globe. There are lots of genre in music; it's just up to us to choose the genre wherein we can be able to expose ourselves in a proper manner, free from conflicts with the moral values. Remember what Plato said, " Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.