Journal 4

      This journal is about discussing music, and what is music in our life. For me, it is really difficult to talk about it. To be honest, I really don’t know about music. Music is not an very important part in my life. Most of music I know is from my friends. This is to say if music really plays a role in my life, it is about friendship. From my perspective, people who know music must also be good at singing. Otherwise, it is just people like me who don’t know how to sing. I don’t know how to sing, so I don’t listen music a lot when I was in secondary school. The reason is that comparing to listen music, I am more preferring to read a book. However, things got changed when my friend introduce some famous singer to me. She told me, Qing, try it, you would love it. I tried, and actually, I found that music is not bad as I have thought about. It has some attractive part, and especially I really enjoy the words expressed with music. It is a new world to me. Thus, I begin to listen music after that. However, the most part I focus on music is not about the music, and it is lyric. The only reason I would like a song is based on lyric. In this way, even if I would listen music, but I think music is still a different world.

This is to say when I know the topic of this journal is really driving me ‘crazy.’ I don’t know how to answer questions, such as, “how does music help define who you are as a person?” I have never think about it, because music didn’t help define who I am. I don’t have talent about music, and music is not my thing.

Therefore, when discussing about David and Edward’s career, I really admire them. However, I couldn’t understand how music could help people in the conflicts. I like their perspective of the conflict, but for me, the most easiest way to solve the conflict is absolutely not about music. Music could play a role in the conflict, but it is only a small part of it. Because music is a entertaining way to enjoy life, it could not be a serious thing to solve the conflict. The problem between Israel and Plantain could not be solved by music, and people who are suffering hungry, poor and so on, could enjoy music and say that they are willing to make peace. This was not true. I think music can make a progress of the conflict, but solving the problem must rely on other things.