Good Riddance(Time of Your Life) - Green Day

Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road

Time grabs you by the hand, directs you where to go

So make the best of this test and don't ask why

It's not a question but a lesson learned in time

It's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right

I hope you had the time of your life

So take the photographs and still frames in your mind

Hang it on a shelf of good health and good time

Tattoos of memories and dead skin on trial

For what it's worth, it was worth all the while

It's something unpredictable, and in the end it's right

I hope you had the time of your life

It's something unpredictable, and in the end it's right

I hope you had the time of your life

It's something unpredictable, and in the end it's right

I hope you had the time of your life

(To see the videoclip, click on the first video where it says "Good Riddance - Green Day")

A simple song, with a strong meaning.

This whole song and video concentrates mainly in time, and how quickly it passes. It's very easy to feel identified with this song, because everything it says is completely true. Youth goes away in just the blink of an eye, and it's often said that the best time of your life, is when you're a teenager, meaning no worries and no compromises. It is while being young that you get to know some of the people that will change your life for ever, and it is while being a teenager when you live the greatest and most exciting moments ever; your first love, your first kiss, the trips, those nights that you wished could laste for ever...it is then when you take a mental picture of all those people that made "your world" complete. But nothing lasts forever...and we must keep those precious memories in our hearts.

But, this song is NOT only about adolescence. It's about your whole LIFE.
We must remember that, even though adolescence is over, you still have a long way to go, a different but more exciting way to go.

I personally, felt really identified with the lyrics.Every minute of our lives is important...because every minute is different from the other, and you and the world will never stay the same. Life is unpredictable and it can take you anywhere; to new places, sights and people. Make sure you walk down this road with a smile on your face, and at the end of it, you'll see that it was worth it.

First Assignment

Well, this is my first entrance in my new blogspot, and I'm going to start it with a reaction I wrote in class. We are studying poetry now, and we were told to write one...I decided to write about a statement.



"When you fall in love you see the world through rose-coloured spectacles"



Yes, it is often said that life and everything around us change dramatically when you fall in love. Suddenly, the perfect place is where you're standing, and suddenly everything is a lot easier. We are some-how blinded by this fake perfection, this image that love gives us, and we ignore reality, that inevitable truth we have to live with everyday. But, it's a beautiful lie, isn't it? makes us invincible for just a fragment of a minute, but that so called paradise can turn into hell if that love is taken away, and all the things we were not seeing crush us. That is why you feel misery is taking over your body when everything ends, when he or she goes away. We find ourselves lost in a "new" land, wandering around with no clue of what to do, stuck in a moment. And then, we realize that it is no new land, it is the same place you have been standing all along...but your perfect world stung your eyes and distracted you from the truth. That is why love is so tricky, confuses you with an out-of-this-world, mind-blowing image...and even though it hurts at the end...we can't help but falling over and over again.



Sounds more like something I'd write in my personal diary...but oh well.