Accomplishing Goals

If money were no object people would not settle for the jobs they have, the houses they rent, or the lives they live. If money were no object people would pursue their dreams and try hard to do what they have to do to get there. This compares to the poem "After Apple Picking" by Robert Frost in many ways. It mainly is similar to the way the character feels unhappy about the job that he has been doing for so long. Two metaphors that Frost used to convey his feelings are "And there’s a barrel that I didn’t fill / Beside it, may be two or three” (l.3-4) and “The woodchuck could say whether it’s like his / Long sleep, as I describe its coming on / Or just some human sleep”(l.40-42). Through the use of metaphors Robert Frost shows his readers how much fatigue, unhappiness, and corruption is caused by doing something for so long that does not fulfill their needs.

Frost used metaphors to show how un-accomplished he felt. Frost did not want to waste his time with apple picking and not be able to do anything else. Frost stated “And there’s a barrel that I didn’t fill / Beside it, may be two or three” (l.3-4). This tells us that he thought that he has missed out on countless events that in life that he could have been doing rather than apple picking. He was so concentrated on his job that he had nothing else to think of or waste away his time with and he became so consumed with apple picking all day every day. He felt as if he had done nothing else but pick apples instead of exploring the outside world or fulfilling a dream.

Frost used metaphors to ask questions about his future. He was very upset and always wondered if he had wasted his life. Frost says “The woodchuck could say whether it’s like his / Long sleep, as I describe its coming on / Or just some human sleep” (l.40-42). This can be interpreted in many ways. One way could be that he is asking himself if he will be apple picking for just a short time in his life or if he will be doing it forever. Another way this can be interpreted is by asking himself if he has a short time left to live or a long time left to live. He worries about this because he does not want to look back, when he is on his deathbed, and see that all he has accomplished was filling barrels of apples. He does not want to be unhappy when his is old and withering away.

The literary focus that Frost uses in his poem “After Apple Picking” can unleash all types of painful feeling. This shows how important it is that people do what they want in life. They need to follow their dreams till they do not have any time left because they can be alive but they are not really living. Never should they settle for anything less but their dreams and goals. Without following dreams, life is dull and bitter instead of exciting, wonderful, and astounding.

Loss of Friends

     There are many things in my life that I have done that I would like to change. Even though I would not like to change a thing. But there is one thing that still haunts me in my everyday life. I do not really talk much about it but here it goes.
     Friends mean so much to me and I think they are important to have in life, always. In eighth grade I lost most of my friends. I was damaged by the thought of them not liking me after we had known eachother for so long. The memories are hard to forget but knowing that it was so easy to give up on a friend, I must have never had that friend in the first place.
     I guess I changed and they did not like it but at that time I was just acting out. I did this because I always felt alone and when I felt important, I made mistakes to keep feeling important. Mistakes that I had no idea that I would make and that I never knew I made in the first place. Some people stay in my life and some people go, and the people that were with me through that time was Jaden and Alex. I love them to death and thank them for never giving up on me and being a true friend.
     If I changed this then I would have to live with the people that were fake to me a whole six years of my life. I do not need that and if I were still friends with those people I would be damaged and broken because I would have no one to comfort me in the end. I would have allowed myself to be hurt over and over again, not even knowing it.
     Thought the times I went through were rough, I am glad it all happened because I would not have the friends that I have now and I would have never been so strong and so independent.

Ballet ;*

     My favorite hobby is not something people really do anymore these days but that is what makes it so unique. Ballet is my favorite hobby. Ballet is very amazing in so many different ways.
     I love ballet because it is a beautiful art form that expresses character. When I am not doing ballet, I am thinking about it. I am thinking about all the steps of my routines and how I am supposed to be positioned. Ballet must love me back because I have only been dancing, in general, for two months and I am already in intermediate ballet and am in four different performances.
     Something that makes me mad is when people say that ballet is easy but trust me, if you take a few classes you will learn better. Being a ballerina is anything but easy because I have to worry about my arm positions, if my feet are in the right direction, if I am pointing my toes, if my head is up, if my shoulders are down, if I am jumping high enough, if my splits are long enough, and if I look good enough to fit the part. I would have to say that the hardest thing to do in ballet is to make the performance look easy. See the only reason why people think that it is easy is because ballerinas trick you into thinking that (we also have great acting skills). I never will understand why other ballerinas do not want to go to class because I will always love being there every moment of my life.
     My dream consists of ballet and I hope to soon be on pointe. Pointe is the ballet shoe with the wood at the end of it where ballerinas have to stand on the very tips of their toes. Blisters are part of the job. In some ballet companies, the more blisters you have the greater the company is.
     Ballet is my favorite hobby because it is beautiful, passionate, but hard working. I love the challenge it gives me. Dance is passion, sacrifice, and obsession. Nothing will ever change that.

We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create dreams.  -Albert Einstein

My Favorite Band ;*

Florence & The Machine

Though I love all types of music, there is one band in particular that I just can not get enough of. My favorite band is Florence and the Machine which is an English Indie rock band. Even though most people have never heard of this band, I have grown very fond of it. I love this band because their music is so much different from another music I have heard.

My favorite song is Cosmic Love (Seven Lions Remix). I like this song so much because of the different ways you can dance to it. You can dance lyrical, contemporary, ballet, or hip hop. My brother and I will also be doing a mixture of ballet and hip hop to this dance. Within the music it has a gentle sound but it also has some dubstep in it as well. I can not sit still when I listen to this song.
Florence and The Machine has 3 albums. Their first album was Lungs which came out in 2009, Lungs - The B-Sides which came out in 2011, and Ceremonials which also came out in 2011. The vocalist is Florence Welch, keyboard is Isabella Summers, harpist is Tom Monger, drummer is Chris Hayden, guitarist is Robert Ackroyd, and the bass guitarist is Mark Saunders.
In the song Cosmic Love the part that says “I took the stars from my eyes, and then I made a map and knew that somehow I could find my way back then I heard your heart beating, you were in the darkness too So I stayed in the darkness with you”. In this part I believe that she means that she was going to attempt to get away from the love that he had given to her and tried to go back to how things were but realized that without him she would never be the same and neither would he if she left him.
I love the songs by Florence and The Machine because they are not just some random songs with no meaning they are like poems of reality. Their songs show what they are going through and how they came out of the rough times or just allowed themselves to stay with what has been given to them because of the fear of being alone. Which is exactly how I feel.