The Changes of Person and Music

First off

The name of the song I have picked is "Our Own Pretty Ways" by First Aid Kit.

I picked this song because of a meaning I believe it shares with life, order, and chaos. The key word this all focuses on is 'change'. The changes in one's life and one's own person over time. No one person ever stays the same forever. Similar perhaps, but not the same. The changes of a person are guaranteed as they grow older and experience life, which this known fact gives a sense of order. The way someone changes though can be different depending on the person and how they react to the experience they had. Change always has a sense of chaos. People have changed from better to worse to better to better.
"For we all change in our own ways, in our own pretty ways" is the chorus to the song above and I feel it is in tune with how change in one's life really is. Just since the beginning of college I know I and many others I knew from high school have changed. Some for the better, others not.
Either way, this is my piece picked to show life, order, and chaos.

Prof. Lovett's lecture

Prof. Lovett's lecture on the brain expressed the amazing amounts of a person as we know it stored in the relatively small form of the brain. The brain and the way it works has always been a bit of a weird space in my thoughts since I was very young, for it is odd to believe that all anyone really is is a gross gray thing lumped up inside one's head. The 10% myth that Prof. Lovett discussed I must admit was not a shock to be because of my own understanding (however limited) of the brain. What was a shocking topic that Prof. Lovett discussed was the young man that had a very bad case of obsessive compulsive. It was so over whelming that the man dropped out of college and tried to kill himself by shooting himself in the head with a .22. His suicide failed but the bullet placed itself in the lower center part of his brain and thus stopped the brain's over compulsive nature. The man even went back to college later on and gained a job after.
It is mind boggling thing, the brain. No matter how many times I learn and relearn facts about it, I always come back to the question of whether a brain is really what I am. In terms of the class I think the order is the brain itself, and the chaos is me thinking about the brain. It is like trying to look at one's own nose without a mirror.

(image to come)

Reflection of Franklin and Juhan

Although Franklin and Juhan had different ways of expressing themselves, their views were basically the same. Franklin believed that one should work to drive negative elements of the character out of one's self in order to become a more perfect version of the self. Juhan believed that as we grow, we learn to avoid past ignorance and personal failures and become a more well rounded version of the self. Doing this allows for the growth of one's 'self' whether it be simply by growing or by working to rid one's self of their faults. I feel, however, that by doing such to order the mind and body, one is in fact (like Juhan believed) destroying a part of itself. The self of chaos. The self of chaos may sound like something to get rid of as both Franklin and Juhan worked to do, but the self of chaos is the basic natural form of the human mind. Can a person break away from their natural roots completely and convert to the self of order? Perhaps. Perhaps not.
Here are some of my own records of changing the self by ending habits found negative.

(sheets to be viewed at a later date)