Music II

On Saturday my friends and I went to laser tag for another friends birthday party and it was loads and loads of fun, but what this post is about is the ride back home (even if I do have some super funny stories of the actual party). Anyway, my mom had offered to give some of the girls a ride back home and while we were in the car my friend Lola and I got into this really in depth conversation about songs. Specifically song lyrics, song names, over usage of techno-beats and auto-tune, and other related topics. And so as we were talking obviously everyone was listening and my mom got this great idea that I should try out song writing. At first I thought it was pretty ridiculous, but I did try to that night because my mom had said to. And after a while I realized i wasn't all that terrible. One thing pissed me off though. The fact that my beats were way simple and my songs were too country (my least favorite genre of music). So I guess that two things but you get the idea. And there I was with a beat up marble journal, an old pencil, and a headache trying to figure out what I was doing wrong. The answer came to me today in LA in a very "a-ha!" sort of moment. Super theatrical, palm heel forehead, make stupid face, the works. And it was then that I realized (while this one kid I may or may not like stared at me like I was an idiot... which I am) that I had been lacking rhythm. And a clear head, but that's besides the point. And the best part was that I had found that rhythm. And with that rhythm came ideas and a passion for my writing that had been dormant for the past few months and I felt like I was in seventh grade again making the realization that I loved writing and I was so....... happy. It was beautiful. So now I am taking some of my least favorite poems from sixth and seventh (and the beginning of eighth) grade and tweaking them a bit. And now they are gorgeous pieces of me. I'm in heaven.