This is an older recording, from about a couple months ago, but I covered this song with my friend and I'd appreciate everyone checking it out, thanks!
http://danielfitzmusic.bandcamp.com/track/give-me-love-ed-sheeran
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Monday, March 4, 2013
America's Pants
How come I can't just have what I want when I want it?
This isn't really a problem. As Americans, we just think it is. I promise this isn't a strongly-worded hate post about how Americans are gluttons and swine and we all need a reality check because there are starving people in Africa (not to make light of that, just using it here because that is an argument commonly used). I love America. I think we've made some pretty long strides, or perhaps leaps, throughout the timeline of humanity and I appreciate this. But I fear that these long strides may have caused our pants to rip in a couple places that aren't so flattering.
In too many cases, I have found that American culture equates instant gratification with revolutionary cultural and technological advances - an incredibly dangerous thing. Convenience is glorified and it, to be honest, terrifies me. Now you'd think that I'd be satisfied by the counterculture of today's American society that strives to embrace inconvenience, old-school, and uniqueness. But because of this, "unique" and "different" have only become labels and fashion statements that people attempt to fit themselves into. And even worse is that we KNOW this. We fully acknowledge the fact that we have twisted those meanings. Hence, the term "hipster" now has a negative connotation.
Now instead of going on about my opinion on the answer I posed in the beginning of this post, I'd rather I just let it lie. The internet will fare just as well without my opinion and I don't feel led to share, I simply would just rather people think about it themselves. Is the question relevant - is there a need for it? Does it make sense to ask today? Why or why can we not have what we want when we want it? Is it healthy for human beings to be able to do so? Are we better or worse off with more availability and ease?
Thanks for reading - hope everyone's Monday was bearable.
This isn't really a problem. As Americans, we just think it is. I promise this isn't a strongly-worded hate post about how Americans are gluttons and swine and we all need a reality check because there are starving people in Africa (not to make light of that, just using it here because that is an argument commonly used). I love America. I think we've made some pretty long strides, or perhaps leaps, throughout the timeline of humanity and I appreciate this. But I fear that these long strides may have caused our pants to rip in a couple places that aren't so flattering.
In too many cases, I have found that American culture equates instant gratification with revolutionary cultural and technological advances - an incredibly dangerous thing. Convenience is glorified and it, to be honest, terrifies me. Now you'd think that I'd be satisfied by the counterculture of today's American society that strives to embrace inconvenience, old-school, and uniqueness. But because of this, "unique" and "different" have only become labels and fashion statements that people attempt to fit themselves into. And even worse is that we KNOW this. We fully acknowledge the fact that we have twisted those meanings. Hence, the term "hipster" now has a negative connotation.
Now instead of going on about my opinion on the answer I posed in the beginning of this post, I'd rather I just let it lie. The internet will fare just as well without my opinion and I don't feel led to share, I simply would just rather people think about it themselves. Is the question relevant - is there a need for it? Does it make sense to ask today? Why or why can we not have what we want when we want it? Is it healthy for human beings to be able to do so? Are we better or worse off with more availability and ease?
Thanks for reading - hope everyone's Monday was bearable.
Sunday, March 3, 2013
With A Little Help From My Friends
I just want to take a minute and write about friendship. I love my friends. I could go on about how I really appreciate the friends who were super consistent and always there for me with the whole you-know-who-you-are speech, but I think that defeats the purpose. Everyone has "friends," but I count myself so incredibly blessed to have actual friends. People that I can trust and just be myself, even if "myself" is a little weird and out of place and perhaps a little ambitious. People I can stay up and out with until 1:30 am watching dumb movies and having conversations about sleepwalking with their moms. I thank God for the friends that I can call and just cry with. I mean really cry, and not feel obligated to hold back.
But out of all these people that I love in my life, there is one person that I have known for years now. We don't see or really talk as often as we'd like because it's just so hard to find opportunities to, but without her, I'm not entirely sure if I'd be who I am today, complete with all my quirks and flaws. You know that your best friend is your best friend when you can sit in silence, or do nothing for an extended period of time, and not feel weird about it. There are few people that I can do nothing with and that time of nothing is more important to me than it would be if we had gone and had a night on the town. She's my best friend, I love her, and I'm going to miss her when we part ways this fall.
I encourage anyone reading this to thank the people in your life that have been good to you. Because chances are, you don't deserve them. I don't deserve the good people in my life but I'm so selfish that I wouldn't trade them for anything. Ever. My mom, my siblings, and my step-father are the best out of all because somehow they deal with me 24/7. I love them for that. And all of my unrelated friends are incredible, too.
You don't need a national holiday or a birthday to make the people around you aware of how important they are. And it's never too late to change your perspective from selfishness to gratefulness.
Thanks for the read.
But out of all these people that I love in my life, there is one person that I have known for years now. We don't see or really talk as often as we'd like because it's just so hard to find opportunities to, but without her, I'm not entirely sure if I'd be who I am today, complete with all my quirks and flaws. You know that your best friend is your best friend when you can sit in silence, or do nothing for an extended period of time, and not feel weird about it. There are few people that I can do nothing with and that time of nothing is more important to me than it would be if we had gone and had a night on the town. She's my best friend, I love her, and I'm going to miss her when we part ways this fall.
I encourage anyone reading this to thank the people in your life that have been good to you. Because chances are, you don't deserve them. I don't deserve the good people in my life but I'm so selfish that I wouldn't trade them for anything. Ever. My mom, my siblings, and my step-father are the best out of all because somehow they deal with me 24/7. I love them for that. And all of my unrelated friends are incredible, too.
You don't need a national holiday or a birthday to make the people around you aware of how important they are. And it's never too late to change your perspective from selfishness to gratefulness.
Thanks for the read.
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