I have to do journal assignments for my American Lit. class which is great because I love to write, but never have time to. Here’s my first journal entry. Let me know what you think.<\/p>\n
American Lit. Journal Entry #1<\/strong><\/p>\n What is the most inspirational song you know? Write at least one stanza (verse) of the song (the part that means the most to you personally) and paraphrase it. Does the song have a spiritual meaning to you? What is it?<\/p>\n —————————–<\/p>\n Keane: Crystal Ball<\/p>\n Who is the man I see Oh, crystal ball, crystal ball Lines ever more unclear Oh, crystal ball, crystal ball I don\u2019t where I am Oh, crystal ball, crystal ball —————————–<\/p>\n The song that currently inspires me most is Crystal Ball by Keane. It has a hauntingly beautiful melody and mysterious, romantic lyrics.<\/p>\n This song seems to be about a man who is taking a closer look at who he is and where he\u2019s at in life and isn\u2019t finding any meaning or substance in who he has become. He\u2019s wishing he could see into the future in order to know that he\u2019ll find his place in the world. The highlighted verse beautifully describes how it\u2019s becoming more difficult for him to dicern who and where he should be in life and as a person. He doesn\u2019t feel as if his life has meaning which makes him feel like he doesn\u2019t matter and doesn\u2019t really exist. The more he contemplates this the more this feeling sinks in.<\/p>\n I do feel spiritually connected to the song. I love the song because I feel like I can relate to it. For me, it expresses feelings and thoughts that I\u2019ve had in the past, and that I\u2019m sure many others have felt or wondered to some extent at some point in their life. Introspective questions of who we truly are, of whether we\u2019re pursuing the right path, and of whether or not our life has any true value to ourselves, others, and the world at large.<\/p>\n Personally, I think the expectations of society usually provide the framework or foundation for who we shape ourselves into and that at some point we begin to create our own personal values. We wonder about what truly defines us, what matters to us, what we stand for or have contributed to, and we question our own existance and its relevance. If we\u2019re unhappy with what we discover, we either give up and waste away or we grow up and start taking steps to live a life of meaning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have to do journal assignments for my American Lit. class which is great because I love to write, but never have time to. Here’s my first journal entry. Let me know what you think. American Lit. Journal Entry #1 What is the most inspirational song you know? Write at least one stanza (verse) of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journals"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4XnUB-2D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332,"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions\/332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWhere I\u2019m supposed to be?
\nI lost my heart, I buried it too deep
\nUnder the iron sea<\/p>\n
\nSave us all, tell me life is beautiful
\nMirror, mirror on the wall<\/p>\n
\nI\u2019m not sure I\u2019m even here
\nThe more I look the more I think that I\u2019m
\nStarting to disappear<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n
\nSave us all, tell me life is beautiful
\nMirror, mirror on the wall
\nOh, crystal ball, hear my song
\nI\u2019m fading out, everything I know is wrong
\nSo put me where I belong<\/p>\n
\nAnd I don\u2019t really care
\nI look myself in eye
\nThere\u2019s noone there
\nI fall upon the earth
\nI call upon the air
\nBut all I get is the same old vacant stare<\/p>\n
\nSave us all, tell me life is beautiful
\nMirror, mirror on the wall
\nOh, crystal ball, hear my song
\nI\u2019m fading out, everything I know is wrong
\nSo put me where I belong<\/p>\n