Laura Arango Ochoa
10A
8/31/2014
SOML
Dear Reader,
Did you checked out the new music album that is going around? It's AMAZING, you should really check it out!
My name is Laura Arango Ochoa and I'm a student at Colegio Granadino in Manizales, Colombia. In this moment, I'm in a really happy state of my life and every time I feel sad or stressed out about any little detail, I feel hope. With help of all the effort I put into my happiness, I'm learning how to get over my problems and with help of this new soundtrack, I can examine myself a little closer. The songs not only talk about sad moments and hope, but also about happiness and how I want to live my life and have amazing experiences. I hope you enjoy my soundtrack and while you listen to it, try to find all the feelings that the songs can express.
The album that I just created is a short summary of my life and all the feelings that go by my mind everyday. It describes all the sorrowful moments in my daily life and all the mistakes that I had made throughout my life. In the bright side, the soundtrack will show the happy side of my by expressing how I get to solve my problems when I fill my life with hope and the wish to live everyday of my life at the fullest. This project will provide me an opportunity to get to know myself better and explore all the emotions that can make me either sad, joyful, thrilled, or scared. Over the course of the years, I have discovered that I'm not a person that connects with music that easily, which is why my main goal for this soundtrack, is to get to understand music better and find music that really describes me. An interesting fact about myself is that sometimes I feel as wise as a encyclopedia, but I can also feel with no knowledge at all in the music area, which is why I would like to explore music throughout the creation of this soundtrack.
The first track that you will get to listen is "Brave", by Sara Bareilles. I chose this song as the lead of my album because it represents myself in every single day of my life and it remembers me of the times that I was feeling really sad because of the loss of some of my family members. When I listen to it, I remember those hard moments that I had to live and the steps that I had to take in order to surpass it. I believe that the meaning of this song is a way describe how a person can be brave with a little push from the ones who care about you. It's really important because it tells how a person can get really strong and brave and can surpass all the good or bad things things that happen in life. When I listen to this track, I get hope to make things better, or when I feel weak, the lyrics tell me not to run way from my problems and face them in order to fix them. Some people might think that I'm a really silent person, but the truth is that throughout this song, you can get to know me better and learn that I am a person who does not surrender easily and always looks for hope and strength when things turn out wrong.
The song "Human" by Christina Perri, is one if the most significant tracks of all my soundtrack. For me, this song is a goldmine filled with answers to all my mistakes. It does not represent a single event in my life, because I connect this song to my life every time that I make any mistake. It takes a really essential place in my album because It fits perfectly in my daily life situations and I helps me get over my mistakes. This song makes me reflect on the way of seeing the world, because it makes me realize that I cannot be perfect and I'm allowed to make as many mistakes as it takes to become a better person, just like every other human. It truly connects to my life because it teaches me how to face my errors and see them as a positive change by not giving them power enough to ruin my life. Basically, if you listen closely to this track, you will notice that I'm a person who likes to do everything perfect and sometimes, those little mistakes can affect me.
"I Lived" by One Republic, is the last song in my song from my album. I chose this track as the last one because it animates people into making life better after analyzing the other two songs that basically talk about mistakes and ways to solve them. In my life, it represent the beginning of this school year because I was filled with hope and emotions about the new year and I decided to set as goal of the year, to live this year the best I could. I chose this song because it works as the perfect closing scene and it has a really important role, because it describes how to live life at the fullest and never deny any opportunity. It connects to my life because it makes me feel joyful and it inspires me to live happy and exited in every possible moment, in other words, it makes me wish to have an amazing life for eternity. If you analyze the song's lyrics closer, you can see that I'm a person who likes to get over my problems and live my life as happy as I can in order to enjoy it and live at the fullest by creating so many inspiring amazing memories.
As you listened through my soundtrack, I hope you got the chance to take a closer look to my personality. I thank you for taking your time to listen to it because you got to extend your thoughts and learn about some music and it's meaning. I expect that you got the possibility to take some advice from the music lyrics of the tunes that I chose, such as being positive in every step of your life and facing your problems instead of avoiding them. Another advice would be to enjoy your life and do everything you wish and believe that is right and that will lead you to satisfaction. Not only take the time to read this letter but also to lend an ear to the music and find your very own connections. Finally, I hope that you have learned more about myself and I wish that you have got the opportunity to connect yourself to the tracks I chose such as Brave, Human, and I Lived, and look for similar events in your life that could be represented by these songs, because after all, these songs and the creation of this soundtrack helped me discover some of my unique characteristics.
10A
8/31/2014
SOML
Dear Reader,
Did you checked out the new music album that is going around? It's AMAZING, you should really check it out!
My name is Laura Arango Ochoa and I'm a student at Colegio Granadino in Manizales, Colombia. In this moment, I'm in a really happy state of my life and every time I feel sad or stressed out about any little detail, I feel hope. With help of all the effort I put into my happiness, I'm learning how to get over my problems and with help of this new soundtrack, I can examine myself a little closer. The songs not only talk about sad moments and hope, but also about happiness and how I want to live my life and have amazing experiences. I hope you enjoy my soundtrack and while you listen to it, try to find all the feelings that the songs can express.
The album that I just created is a short summary of my life and all the feelings that go by my mind everyday. It describes all the sorrowful moments in my daily life and all the mistakes that I had made throughout my life. In the bright side, the soundtrack will show the happy side of my by expressing how I get to solve my problems when I fill my life with hope and the wish to live everyday of my life at the fullest. This project will provide me an opportunity to get to know myself better and explore all the emotions that can make me either sad, joyful, thrilled, or scared. Over the course of the years, I have discovered that I'm not a person that connects with music that easily, which is why my main goal for this soundtrack, is to get to understand music better and find music that really describes me. An interesting fact about myself is that sometimes I feel as wise as a encyclopedia, but I can also feel with no knowledge at all in the music area, which is why I would like to explore music throughout the creation of this soundtrack.
The first track that you will get to listen is "Brave", by Sara Bareilles. I chose this song as the lead of my album because it represents myself in every single day of my life and it remembers me of the times that I was feeling really sad because of the loss of some of my family members. When I listen to it, I remember those hard moments that I had to live and the steps that I had to take in order to surpass it. I believe that the meaning of this song is a way describe how a person can be brave with a little push from the ones who care about you. It's really important because it tells how a person can get really strong and brave and can surpass all the good or bad things things that happen in life. When I listen to this track, I get hope to make things better, or when I feel weak, the lyrics tell me not to run way from my problems and face them in order to fix them. Some people might think that I'm a really silent person, but the truth is that throughout this song, you can get to know me better and learn that I am a person who does not surrender easily and always looks for hope and strength when things turn out wrong.
The song "Human" by Christina Perri, is one if the most significant tracks of all my soundtrack. For me, this song is a goldmine filled with answers to all my mistakes. It does not represent a single event in my life, because I connect this song to my life every time that I make any mistake. It takes a really essential place in my album because It fits perfectly in my daily life situations and I helps me get over my mistakes. This song makes me reflect on the way of seeing the world, because it makes me realize that I cannot be perfect and I'm allowed to make as many mistakes as it takes to become a better person, just like every other human. It truly connects to my life because it teaches me how to face my errors and see them as a positive change by not giving them power enough to ruin my life. Basically, if you listen closely to this track, you will notice that I'm a person who likes to do everything perfect and sometimes, those little mistakes can affect me.
"I Lived" by One Republic, is the last song in my song from my album. I chose this track as the last one because it animates people into making life better after analyzing the other two songs that basically talk about mistakes and ways to solve them. In my life, it represent the beginning of this school year because I was filled with hope and emotions about the new year and I decided to set as goal of the year, to live this year the best I could. I chose this song because it works as the perfect closing scene and it has a really important role, because it describes how to live life at the fullest and never deny any opportunity. It connects to my life because it makes me feel joyful and it inspires me to live happy and exited in every possible moment, in other words, it makes me wish to have an amazing life for eternity. If you analyze the song's lyrics closer, you can see that I'm a person who likes to get over my problems and live my life as happy as I can in order to enjoy it and live at the fullest by creating so many inspiring amazing memories.
As you listened through my soundtrack, I hope you got the chance to take a closer look to my personality. I thank you for taking your time to listen to it because you got to extend your thoughts and learn about some music and it's meaning. I expect that you got the possibility to take some advice from the music lyrics of the tunes that I chose, such as being positive in every step of your life and facing your problems instead of avoiding them. Another advice would be to enjoy your life and do everything you wish and believe that is right and that will lead you to satisfaction. Not only take the time to read this letter but also to lend an ear to the music and find your very own connections. Finally, I hope that you have learned more about myself and I wish that you have got the opportunity to connect yourself to the tracks I chose such as Brave, Human, and I Lived, and look for similar events in your life that could be represented by these songs, because after all, these songs and the creation of this soundtrack helped me discover some of my unique characteristics.