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Contemplating Confucius
By WISS Admin | April 23, 2009
That’s Shanghai , Education, April 2009
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By Seth Pippenger, WISS G6 student
All music or melody has power; to impact, to teach and to remind us of the pleasures in our lives. I use it to simplify my life and to concentrate on the present. It helps me to step back and observe things. It is the melody that makes me feel very calm, peaceful and relaxed and the contrast between the melody and harmony that make me feel a particular way. I can feel joyful, anxious and even have mixed feelings. Sometimes after listening to a song I feel a sudden urge to do something, good or bad. I will often go out into the world, then express myself through energy and creativity.
Often I will hear my mom telling me to be quiet because I am either humming or making simple beats with my mouth. That is where I think Confucius is right. For it seems wrong when there is silence.
In music there can be a force that gives your heart a startle; music can control your heartbeat, which is why, in my opinion, we can’t live without it. It has the power to control us, through influencing, convincing and teaching us of the past and fututure. Sometimes people listen to music when they are working. When I do homework I listen to music, and when my mom goes to the gym she listens to music.
It is something we can’t live without and even nature itself can’t live without, for it creates its own music; the water going over a waterfall and the birds singing, even small animals running though bushes.
In these few statements I have shown you the pleasure that music gives us all. Music offers a philosophy and it can help people approach the future. It is especially clear in one of my favorite songs call “Slow Fade”. It is a song that teaches and warns me of the future. I think the lyrics describe any young couple. It talks about how the decisions parents make influence their children. However, there is a catch; life is a slow fade rather than just one decision. Life is a series of decisions that define who you are. Confucius was right. For all these different reasons, we just can’t live without music.
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