Quick Write: Folk Songs about Revolution

The song I chose is Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wzBlotbSeo

This song is about how both men and women devoted into the war, it was made during the Revolutionary war. Johnny is just a general name for all the soldiers that have to go to war and left their family behind. The song has a folky and country feeling, but also a sense of grief mixed in it. The song tells how women sold their belongings to buy war equipment for the men. And all the leaving, death, and goodbyes, women also suffered a lot during the war. 

I would really recommend this song, if your husband left you during a war, especially when his name was also Johnny. Sometimes song sings out your feelings, the feeling you don't know how to describe. These kind of songs help you get over things.

Quick Write: Duty or Friendship?

If I really have to choose between giving up on my duty or betraying my friend, I would say it depends. Under different circumstances, people will make different decisions. When that friendship is more important than a certain duty, then I will choose duty. If a duty is essential to me, and the friendship was not as important, I would choose completing my duty first. When the importance of the duty and friendship lies at the same level, I would go for duty. Duty has to be done first, you can save your friendship or other relationships later. Relationship can be gained again, but missing a duty might mean you missed a chance. If you have that chance and you make yourself better, your friends might come back to you, unless you betrayed them, though there is still a possibility. Never that emotions control your mind, you need to be great person to do what ever you want and get away with it. So before you become a great person by obeying all your duties, do not do whatever you want, because you won't get away with it.

Quick Write: Under Pressure

Somehow, stress and pressure come upon me every time I play badminton, but it's not that I don't like badminton. I am an amateur at badminton, and I've only played for a year, with no actual coach. Every time we play doubles, people tend to find someone very skilled to partner with me, so that's where the pressure comes from. I really hate to let my partner down, because I don't like people letting me down either. I don't want my skilled partner to loose because of me. During most of the previous competitions, I start crying in the middle of the game, and it always starts out with my hands trembling, and I can't hit the ball for a several times then it starts to kill me. I deal with this situation, not by running away. I take deep breath and I start all over again. This works really well. Just start all over. Most of the time I restart during a game, the first shot I hit earns a point on my team and usually just gets better and better. Never let pressure control you, you need to control it. If you could do that successfully, there's barely anything to be afraid of. Always try your best.

Quick Write: Vengeance

To have the urge to seek vengeance on someone or some people comes from hatred, of course. You want them to feel the pain and agony they caused you to go through. When you are experiencing pain physically or/and mentally, you'll think no one felt the same way as you do, and that you are going through a "living hell." Ohh please, you know nothing about living hell. It's just that the pain that caused you to hurt so much is incomparable to any other thing you've experienced. If you felt something as painful before, then you wouldn't consider the more recent one as painful as "living hell." Just like the song "the First Cut is the Deepest." Feeling that no one else has been as painful as you are, you started to want to share. Share with the one that caused you so much pain. In you imagination, the pain is ten times as much as it actually is. You successfully revenged with ten times the pain, and that may cause tragedy and maybe even death. In Spiderman, Peter wanted to seek vengeance on whoever killed his beloved uncle. He killed the man that shot him. Though the burglar killed his uncle, but it doesn't mean Peter has the right to take away his life. This indicates the inequality of vengeance and the original price.

The Grass is Always Greener On the Other Side

Though I complain a lot, but I know that I am living a pretty awesome life. I was taught to admire people, and less envy. They may be very a like, but admiration gives me a impulse, an urge that makes me want to work for what I want. 

Firstly, envy can easily turn into jealousy and hatred. A year ago, I haven’t experience “jealousy” yet. Maybe I did, but it wasn’t obvious enough to let me acknowledge it is. This year, it appeared in my life, it revealed itself. When I feel the hot blood rushing into my head with the eyes about to have tears leak out, and felt like my heart was tangled together, I knew right then, that was jealousy. It wasn’t a pleasant feeling to have, it was painful. You feel like the whole world is burning into ashes as you soul roam with agony. Usually when you see people with pretty faces, As on report cards, and talented at various subjects, they are all just fine, nice people. But when being pretty or having a certain talent actually makes a difference, the sense of envy will burst out.

Secondly, when you have a certain talent, people admire you, and also envy you. You feel your heart aching when someone tells you “I wish I could be as talented as you,” or things like that. You might enjoy at first taking that as a compliment, but did they know how hard you worked for it? If they never set any effort on to this subject, why do they have the right to say that? Have you ever felt that way? The only time you can envy someone, is when you did as much or more effort into the subject as the others did. That way you are showing the person respect through the sense of envy.