Time IV

Everybody has experienced time speeding up or slowing down, well at least they think that they have. When you're having the time of your life, and hours pass in the blink of an eye, you look back and think, "Wow, I wish time was more helpful." and try to have fun in school so that that plain clock on the wall might just start to work, I mean it is broken isn't it? Everybody knows that feeling. Why does this happen? I haven't the slightest idea, but maybe it's something to do with the adrenaline released by our bodies or some other little known or undiscovered chemical in our brains. The reason I'm mentioning this is because lately I've been noticing this happening to me more and more frequently. I'm sure that nothing has changed, I've just become aware that it's going on. I just had another crazy thought. Stress can lead to aging, and when your stressed about something, time crawls along, unless of course you're stressed about a deadline, and then it kicks into high gear. But when you're stressed out, time slows down, and people like presidents get gray hairs early on because of stress. So what If two people both lived, say eighty years, but one had fun the entire time, and the other person had the flu the whole time, would the person with the flu have lived a longer time than the one who was happy their whole life? I don't know, but it's something to think on.

Battleborne

There is fire in the air that I'm breathing
There is blood where the battle's rage
These are faces I will not remember
Will I fight for the Queen or the Slave

A treacherous part to play with our heart of courage
Where the wind from the north bows the dragon
And the armies and legions have formed
We have camp for the night through the cover
Fading ghosts in the shadows of war

Battleborne, battleborne, battleborne, battleborne

Gone, all the villagers lead out to pasture
The black wing of death as their liege
Felt the ground; it was bare from the plunder
The soldiers that lie at my feet

The maidens were lost wading across an ocean
On a ship heading north to the mainland
I am standing in wake of the storm
I was raised by the Wolf and the Stallion
This sword was battleborne

Battleborne, battleborne, battleborne, battleborne

Music

For me, music is a huge part of my everyday life. I use it when I go on runs by myself to pace me  and keep me going, and I can also use it to tune out people who annoy me, the latter being the more commonly used of the two. I consider myself fairly well rounded as far as a taste in music is concerned. I like classical, alternative, some pop, and anything else that's not either country pop or gangster rap, it just doesn't interest me. When I listen to music, I like to listen to the lyrics. I know that some people are not lyrics people, but I am. Even in some songs where you can't even hear the words, you can look them up later on. I like to listen to the lyrics and sometimes I think about them, but sometimes I don't. Music is essential to my livelihood, without it I would be lost, or listening to people.

Perception

I was just thinking, and a random thought just popped into my mind, as random thoughts often do. I was think about how much our perception of things changes the way we think of them, and the example I thought of was this. What if There was a concert, let's have them play something famous like Beethoven's fifth symphony. Instead of being able to see the musicians, they are sitting behind the curtain. Then the conductor walks out onto the stage in front of the curtain and tells you that the orchestra will be performing Beethoven's fifth symphony, but naked. After saying this, he goes behind the curtain and the music begins. Regardless of whether the musicians are naked or not, your perception of the music changes, because it's weird. I'm not really sure if it would actually change how the music sounded to you, but I think it would be a cool experiment.