Silence In John Cage's '4 33'

Music is a beautiful form of expression for anyone, whether it’s the actual musician, the composer, or the listener. It is a way for one to convey their feelings, thoughts, beliefs, about life in a manner that is basically impossible to recreate. John Cage’s piece “4’33” epitomizes the ideal of silence because equally as relevant as the notes played. As the legendary and iconic music composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote, “The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.” Silence is one of the most beautiful and quintessential parts of life as we know it. The Buddhists belief in “静“(jing, which means silence) because in silence you are able to fix your thoughts and think clearly. Although in this word when a person can treat you

We all love to get our point across. It doesn’t matter if I’m in the middle of an argument and I realize that I’m wrong, I’m going to continue and argue that my point is correct. All of us want to be right whether it’s about what Avogadro’s number is or if my friend believes that I filed my taxes the wrong way. Some arguments that we have obviously have a right or wrong answer, for example, it is a known FACT that two plus two equals four. There is no way around, no matter what type of calculus you may want to bring into the argument, two plus two in four. If you think otherwise, I will gladly discuss your lack of intellectual agility or we can just let it be-it’s completely up to you. Anyways, there comes a time in life where we have to realize when to just be in silence is sometimes what you have to do to come to a common

Love is something that we all essentially need to live a happy and abundant life. Although I don’t quite comprehend what love exactly means because, after all, I am only 16 years old, I have recently overcome a personal hurdle in my life. I was very interested in one person. I did not want anybody else on God’s green Earth. To cut the long, ambiguous, and rather annoying story, I will just let you know that things did not work out the way that I planned. I planned for us to be really, really good friends for nearly eternity. Due to my deep investment in one person, I lost sight of the important things in life. Whenever I would go to track practice, I would not focus on the repetitive cone drills, or the repeat 200s that we did during practice, I was constantly thinking about this one person. It made me go borderline insane after the ties were cut between