Baffling edge..

“BLOGGING”… --- When I first heard this, (in a TV commercial) I began to be inquisitive of what computer or rather, “blogging” is. Yeah right! I’m such a primitive when it comes to these things before and as illiterate, I enjoy my self-exploration and found myself doing this blog.

Music, Arts, and Culture… These three make a stand in our status quo and made an individual to have his self identity and belongingness. But these notions got a baffling frame as they take place in our society. Just like in Music. We assume that it’s just a kind of genre, and yet, gives a greater meaning to some and even make it as part of their life nor serves as a newborn culture. In Arts, we presume that planking is just of one’s absurdity but rarely, have the greatest imagery of courage and strength of those casualties in the world history. And lastly, the state of Destitution that gives appalling image in our country but confers eagerness to all despite his race, gender and age. It’s just a kind of commonality indeed. Not new. Not even a hot topic to read on. But what make us decide to take it, is the essence of the stories to be served…the formation of common sense into a public consciousness.

In doing this kind of bustle, we’ve learned a lot of things in life. Not just unfolding the untold, or being aware of technicalities in blogging, but having the experiences in common but deepest meaning of life. Though we’ve encountered difficulties upon grounding, we or rather I, still feel the gratitude of taking this subject. I had a lot of remarkable experiences, such as taking the role of others; view the reality in just a minute and most importantly, to understand things that I usually refuse to think of. I began to appreciate even the smallest detail I have, to dig up much deeper on the usual, and to make possible the impossible. And what matter most, is to be not just a researcher or an expert on our field, but a learner of our own life. And for me, this is the real essence of blogging. Not just spilling of words but to filled it with thoughts and served it to ponder.

Emo, Rock, Hiphop, Punk, Screamo, Ghetto, Conyo, Ragged, hmm… what else? Well…whatever it is, STILL, they are part of what we heard in our TV’s, radios and even listed on the daily top HITS! But did you noticed? Why this music evolved? How they become famous than your favorite anime hero? Or let’s even say, “Where this music came from? Whose is whose? Which is which? What is what?

Basically, it’s merely about… MUSIC (?) haha. Of course! Those questions above can obviously be answered via e-book, PDF, Google books, encyclopedias, dictionaries or if you’re wise enough, you will simply ask your MAPEH teacher right? J But HEY! I’m not shallow. What I’m going to tackle is not purely MUSIC but the product of those who are really fascinated on this kind of art.

MUSIC, just like what I’ve read in e-book, is the language of heart… of soul or we can even say an emotional language? Wait. I think I’m going too far into it. Anyhow, these genres are slowly turning into a CULTURE. Yeah. You read it right! It’s Culture. Nowadays, music can be also defined as part of our culture. Wait! Did you know what culture means? Again, it’s a shallow question. J Well, it’s about anything and everything that happens, happening, and happened in our society that brought by our status quo. It seems like this:

   STATUS QUO

               Perceptions

Every one of us has their own culture. And I do believe that people were born individually and affecting others’ personality. So as we born and learn things, we want to be somebody just to be “SOMEBODY”. Going back, by this culture, we come up into new things ‘cause everybody wants to be famous, be known, feel UNIQUE, indifferent, one-of-a-kind, or simply, be like an ENDANGERED SPECIE; to have his own “IDENTITY”. But across the bowlines, these prerogatives became so well-known. I mean, due to that demanding factor, people striving their best to conquer the epidemic holocaust within the society and themselves. They are losing their identities as they going far through it. They became duplicated and not valid. Oh! The issue of validity is another story J

As we look on our self-identity, we became wiser and wiser into lesser things. Just like in music. We heard it, we sing it and finally, we come up into our own songs and kind of music; or beyond those words, we became so attached to the point that we dressed like a rocker, put a bling bling like Snoop Dogg does, or worst, put a scar on our wrist just to prove that you’re an ultimate EMO. In short, we became so well-inflicted. We already make ourselves be part of the music. We make our music as lifestyle and lifestyle as our culture and this culture as part of everybody’s reason of existence.

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