"Speaking Without Words"

There are so many ways to express yourself to others and not only verbally. I can not relate to Mr. Dara as he communicates through playing music with his guest’s, but I can compare some other forms of communication that I experience. When I am with my family, one of our major forms of communicating is when we are cooking together. We see how each other cooks different and we express ourselves through the different foods we cook. We are also always learning from each other through our cooking. By tasting what one another makes and showing them how much we like their cooking by how much we eat. I don’t even need to tell my older sister how good her cooking is because the way I eat her food she already knows. She reads me like a book when she wants feed back. We hardly ever have left over’s. Another thing, have you ever seen the way Argentineans communicate, sometimes all that you can ever get out of the conversation besides the word “Che” is their hand gestures. In my family, it seems like most of the talking is done with their hands. I’ll admit it is contagious because it is something that has already got me doing. One time I heard an Argentinean say, “If you were to tie an Argentineans hands behind his back, then you will not get a conversation out of him.” That is one statement that is so true. Another way that my sister and I really communicate is through shopping. We love shopping together so much that, it is mostly body language and we can hardly get a word in. Like trying on cloths, getting a thumbs up on certain things because we get so caught up in our shopping that we the words don‘t come out. By the end of the day we tell each other how happy we are to have one another. I then think to myself, we didn’t even have to do much coversating to have such a good time. We simply showed how much fun we have with each other. Also singing together is another thing that we are always doing. My sisters and I sing in the car all the time. We begin to start singing and the trip is over and none of us got a word in, but we all had a blast. We communicated through the music and it is as if the music did all the speaking to one another, without us having to tell each other anything. Our dancing also tells things to each other, especially when we are just fooling around. We make each other laugh and we didn’t have to say anything. There are so many ways to communicate and most of us are doing it everyday without words. Many times our actions tend to speak louder than words. I am not in a relationship, but I do know that when you kiss that special someone it can say so much. By that touch on the lips, it may have told them more then what you could have said in words. I rather show someone how I feel about them, then tell them. I am always communicating through so many different ways and I try to always show what I mean more, than say it

My Musical Library

In my musical library I have some country, r&b, soul, alternative rock, and oldies. After going through my list I see that I have more r&b and oldies by the artists Toni Braxton, Isley Brothers, Marvin Gaye, and The Temptations. Over the past five years my taste in music has changed a lot. When I was in high school I was more of a follower when it came to music. When I was hanging around all the guys in my class, then I would listen to more rap and hip hop. Like Tupac, Ja Rule and others. I thought that i had to listen to what everybody else listened to. Then when I realized that in order to be more of myself and find who I really am. That is when I began to listen to music that made me feel. Music that made me happy, sad, and relaxed. I didn't really find that until about three years ago. Now I really have all the music that expresses who I am as an individual. My library is very unique because it has a great mix of different things.
It is true that you do listen to more romantic music when you are in a relationship or in love. Who doesn't listen to romantic music when they are in love. It makes you feel so happy. Well until you are no longer together, then it could just rip you apart to listen to the same music. I have had a big crush on a guy for about three years, but I don't know if he knows. I will listen to the music that makes me think of him. Music that he may have played for me and music that we listened to together. When ever I listen to the Isley Brothers I think of him. That is mostly why I listen to them, but I really enjoyed every moment with him and that's why listening to the music makes me so happy. I have also found myself through my music and I have been really happy. This is the music that I really feel comfortably with and the music that reveals who I really am. As I look into the past I realize that I did not give myself a big variety of music to explore. I kind of kept the doors closed and did'nt really listen to different things. I will not just stick to one type of music. I am always listening to different things and seeing what else is out there. I am always looking to learn something new in my music and my music library is always growing.

Music and How it has influenced me

As a child you would always sing along to the radio to the music your mom or dad put on. For me it was the music my mom and I would always listen to. She loved listening to George Michaels, Toni Braxton, and Earth, Wind & Fire. I loved listening to the music with her as we were on our way to the super market. I’ll never forget the day when I realized that our days of singing in the car were over and we would never go to the super market together ever again. My mom had walked out the door, leaving all nine of her children just standing there with uncertainty and not knowing why she was leaving them. My father was there for us and our mother was nowhere to be found. Why? Why was she saying good-bye. Did that mean that all those fun times of us singing together in the car were over. I did not want to believe that this was really happening, my mother was really gone. How could she, how could a mother that loved us so much just leave us in a heartbeat. I would turn on the radio and play the songs that we used to listen to together. I missed her so much and I felt that the only way to really feel like she was still there was to hold on to one of her t-shirts and listen to the music. It has been eleven years since my mother had left us and every once in awhile I will listen to the songs that we shared together. Those songs saved a part of me. They kept a piece of her still with me. If it was not for the music that I listened to, it probably would have been a lot harder to deal with her leaving. Music has influenced me in so many ways. It has made me realize that you can loose so much in a blink of an eye, but many things can still be saved through the music. You must appreciate every single moment in time because once it is gone all you have is memory. Music is like that mother you ran to when you fell and hurt yourself. It always has its ways of making everything better. I look at life in ways that I would have never imagined. If I hadn’t listened to certain music, then this experience would probably not excist. Music allows you to go anywhere that you want to go. Sometimes my favorite places to go in my music are back to my childhood. When there wasn’t a worry in the world. Where the world seemed like there was nothing bad in it. When grandma and grandpa’s house was the best place to go. Now all that I have are my memories and music to help me get through most of them. I don’t know what I would do without music. It has impacted my life so much, but then again if I never knew about it would it have changed my life in other ways.