Afternoon Pages:

“The Song That Gets Me Through”

It is either between White Knuckles by Ok Go or, This Year by The Mountain Goats. For some reason when I am down I just want to know that there is a reason I am fighting or a reason that what I am doing could be worse. WHite Knuckles is one I sing in my car as loud as I can because the lyrics are just soothing in a way. It talks about how taking your medicine wasn’t as bad as you thought it was and the thing that you were most dreading could be a little less painful once you get through it. I think that is how class is. That one student you dread to deal with every day or the assignment that you wait till the last minute to work on is usually the one that really wasn’t that hard to do in the end. The music video also has these dogs in it and for some reason every time I hear the song I can see the video and I mean who doesn’t love dogs? The second song I heard right before my second year here and my first year at CSU was no cup of tea. I essentially was dreading coming back and needed a sort of anthem to get me through the year. Each verse of the line talks about how the day, week, year gets worse and worse and yet there is still the mentality that they are going to get through the year some way somehow. It’s that kick in the butt to get out and take a hold on the year. Make those bad things a little less awful or make sure they don’t hold you down. I think this too comes back to education in the sense that everyone has a bad day, or week, or year, but the mentality is that you can get through it. You can make that mental switch to take the punches standing up rather than lying on your back. I think the combination of both songs really help me to sit back and take my bad situation with a grain of salt which is what you need when life gets a little too much to handle.