Early morning cold

That ache that you feel gettingnout of bed. Old sprains and healed over broken bones aching. Joints feeling stiff, the air smelling fresh and new, all signs of the winter chill. Cold and painful, but fresh and new.

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A hug to everyone that needs one.

The Dilemmas of Nick Carraway Part 2 of 3

There are a few actions and proceedings that Nick Carraway could have gone along with to better his situation. Nick Carraway had to have been honest with himself and come to terms with the fact that he is attracted to his friend’s wealthy and carefree lifestyle. Once he would have done this he would have felt a great weight lifted from his shoulders. He would have faced the truth that he is not so different from the people and friends he has come to care so much for and idolize.

The truth is that he enjoys the concept and reality of having the freedom of leading an ambiguous lifestyle, not pertaining to a defined and uniformed set of standards. He is attracted to the hedonistic life. This freedom of self is an enticing way of life to ponder. Realizing that he actually enjoys the ideas behind the way of life he sees as immoral and yet freeing would have helped him for the sake of his future. In realizing this he could have applied the standards he constantly stirs into his judgmental criticism toward his friends and people he surrounded himself with and instead directed it at himself. By doing this he would be able to determine once and for all what he chooses to be his way of life and what he wants from life.

This is one of the most crucial proceedings of his current state of life. Now that he faces the harsh reality that he has suffered a tremendous loss and is grief stricken from the death of his closest friends. Nick needs this time to really reflect on how much and how drastically his life has changed and that he is a different man now from the time he left his family, home, set standards, and ideals especially considering he is a war veteran. He is at a crossroads that has and will forever change his life and this is where he should have reevaluated his life to relive it and see how every interaction, excursion and adventure with his friends has been an experience that has allowed him to learn who he really is and how he feels regarding the fallacy of how he believed he should live according to the way he was raised and who he really has become and decide who he really wants to be.

The Dilemmas of Nick Carraway Part 3 of 3

What Nick Carraway needs to review and come to terms with in his life, is as what follows. His ideals and ideas of life. The ways of how he has led life have been called into question. His perception of people has been broken. He is depressed. His ideology of his friends has been destroyed. He has suffered the death of many of his friends and people that surrounded his life, some of which he cared for greatly. His fantastical and fictive view of the world has been shattered and he is now aware of the harsh truth of reality. He no longer knows where to go with his life.

Music and Life

Is music what we think it is? Is it not just a numerical and mathematical algorithm of sounds at a decibel level that humans can perceive enough to experience. Do we receive joy from it because it is familiar or because it is unusual. Compared to most things in life from when we developed as humans it, is unlike anything. We developed instruments to make sounds that are pleasurable. As someone with mild synthesia it is sometimes wonderful to see blue and green hues with nostalgic and emotional soft music. I first realized I was different with this when watching a movie very dear to me for a lot of reasons maybe this is the biggest one but nonetheless it means a lot to me. Star Wars Episode 4 A New Hope is this movie. There is a rather emotional scene in the movie when the main character and hero of the epic, Luke Skywalker, looks out to the sunset with a sense of longing and the music that accompanies it gives a sense of pure nostalgia and longing. I get the same reaction every time I watch this scene. I get goosebumps, my eyes tear up and I start seeing vivid blues and greens and then as the short scene is coming to a close I get a warm feeling and everything becomes engulfed in a bright orange. I believe having this way of experience with sounds and music and connection with it I find myself sometimes wondering why we evolved this ability. It is a way to communicate emotions without speaking and maybe the next step toward our evolution to be able to understand one another better for the betterment of our race as a whole. I find it interesting that most people that develop synesthesia come from a scande-wegen or Icelandic region and I am a descendent of niether.

The Calming Sunset after a Storm

The Dilemmas of Nick Carraway Part 1 of 3

Great Gatsby Analysis
Nick is a war veteran and a normal man thrust into an abnormal situation. He is thrust into circumstances out of his control and experiences events that make him question his life views and morals. He considers these events much more endearing and life changing than his previous life experiences in the “Great War” or World War 1 or his studies at the Ivy League University. The reason that these events affect him more than the other life changing events he had previously experienced is because they were events that have put into question his sense of high morality that was inculcated to him since he was a child.

Nick is now a difficult situation. He is conflicted and is questioning himself. His sense of high morality that he was raised with has been called in questioned. He has had more than a taste of ‘the Roaring Twenties’ in the most powerful experience possible. He became friends with Jay Gatsby and associated himself with that circle of people. He saw firsthand how immoral and dishonest people can be and most importantly he saw that those with power and money are the ones most responsible for that. He sees firsthand the way the elite socialites are; he witnesses the sycophantic suck-ups, he experiences firsthand the two-faced friends, he even comes to witness the freeloaders and the immorality of the high class elite socialites. This has driven a blade into his personal ideals and ideas of peoples. He has become conflicted with how to view the world and he has come to odds with his high standards.