World's Greatest

                R. Kelly’s 2002 release of World’s Greatest has always been inspiring to me. At my school it was our “senior song” and it represented us well. This song has always been on my playlist. It talks about how life is always going to be  hard but at some point you can say that you made it, and in that way I relate it to graduating high school and moving on to the nest chapter in my life, college. Even though I went through some very rough times in high school, I made it to college.  It also reminds me of my senior class. We were a very close class and we all made it together.

                The genre of World’s Greatest is R&B. The purpose of this song is to make people believe that no matter what you should be able to look back and think to yourself that no matter what you did in the past, you made it somewhere. I also believe that R. Kelly is trying to tell us to not let anyone bring you down and to stand with your head held high. I believe that the audience he was trying to reach was kids my age, around 18 or 19. It is a perfect song for those graduating at any level.  R. Kelly’s stance throughout the song is definitely a positive one.

 Music Video here >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgcovIu3k9o

Reality Check!

13 years ago I was in kindergarten with the same kids that I graduated with. I come from a town where you do graduate with the same kids that went to pre-school with you. Everybody knows everybody and everyone gets along. My school was like my family. While everyone was complaining about getting up early and going to school, I was cherishing every moment of school from school lunch to Friday night football games. I loved every day in high school. Then this thing called college starts creeping up on us all and we realize that what we have is going to change tremendously. College is supposed to be something to look forward to and unfortunately for me I was so scared to move on from the only thing I had ever known. I was afraid of change. I was afraid of leaving my friends and the friendly faces I saw every day since I was 5. So move in day comes along and I was not prepared for what was about to happen. There’s so many people, and not one single face that I recognized. I was so intimidated and scared about this huge change in my life. The first weekend is here and I have never been so uneasy in my life. I couldn’t find one thing that made me comfortable. Then the first week of classes rolls by and I’m still not feeling it. Then, as I am sitting at my house, I realize that I missed my room here at Wright State. This is definitely going to take some getting used to and I’m pretty sure that’s normal. So my lesson learned is to give something a chance before judging it so harshly. College is different and not what I’m used to but I cannot say I hate it until I try and that is what I will continue to do!