Reading Log 2

Reading Log # 2

Title : Car Radio

Artist : Twenty One Pilots

Text Type : Song

I personally like this song because it has a steady and calm rhythm and it doesn’t sound boring, or for me atleast. Its lyrics also has a deep meaning to it which can easily be understood if you listen to the lyrics. I also like it because its special, it’s special because the song doesn’t have a chorus.

Car Radio is the 5th song of 14 on twenty one pilots’ album “Vessel”. Car Radio was originally released in 2011 but was re released in 2014. I think the song Car Radio revolves around anxiety and dealing with someone’s thoughts and emotions. I think “car radio” doesn’t literally mean the radio in a car but rather distractions or entertainment. According to the song somebody stole his car radio which causes him to sit in silence. He doesn’t like this silence and this is said in the lines :

Sometimes quiet is violent,

I find it hard to hide it

I think that this means that he is trying to hide the silence which probably refers to his thoughts, thoughts which he is trying to escape using the car radio - distractions or entertainments. The song then continues and says

I’m forced to deal with what I feel

There is no distraction to mask what is real

I can pull the steering wheel

This means that since he is without his car radio he has to deal with his own thoughts which he doesn’t want to. I relate to this because there are thoughts, situations and past that I would rather not encounter again. I do this by having my own car radio, which means I use distractions in order for me to escape these thoughts in which I do not like. I do this by sometimes listening to music and doing things that I enjoy such as drawing, talking to other people, drawing and many more. The last line “I can pull the steering wheel” I don’t really know what they meant by this but an idea I had is that this could be talking about suicide. Since he doesn’t want to deal with his thoughts, emotions or his past, he might be thinking about ending it all. This issue relates to many teenagers because some people experience nasty things that they would rather avoid than face and when they are pushed to their limits they just try and end it all. When I think of this I feel sad. I feel sad to all those who have suffered things which are inhumane and evil. No one should ever suffer things which are not nice and is inhumane. The song then continues and says

I ponder of something terrifying

Cause this time there’s no sound to hide behind

I find over the course of our human existence

One thing consists of consistence

And it’s that we’re all battling fear

I think the lyrics of this song are amazing because it even connects it to the entire human race. It states that “we’re all battling fear” this means that everyone has their own battles. I relate to this and I think so does the entire human race because everyone faces their own battles or problems but not everyone knows about it. And then a thought crossed my mind, What if everyone knows and understands that everyone has their own battles? This made me think that if people could and would understand this, we would have a better world. With this in mind, people would start to treat each other better and would start to look out for one another. If this happens we would have a more joyous and wonderful world without some of the problems that we currently have in our world such as suicide, violence and other more.

Reading Logs

Reading Log # 1

Title : Meet Facebook’s Mr. Nice

Author : Nick Bilton

Text Type : Article

Date Finished : 24/3

Arturo Bejar may have the most difficult job. He is not responsible for increasing advertising revenue or keeping the website alive 24 hours a day. Mr. Bejar has a much more inscrutable task: teaching the site’s 1.3 billion users, especially its tens of millions of teenagers, how to be nice and respectful to one another.

This article gave me information about how facebook is trying to teach empathy to its users. According to the article “we have evolved to understand each other by by tone of voice or seeing facial expressions, but that gets lost through the services we use to communicate” I relate to this because I can tell how someone is feeling through their facial expression and their tone of voice. According also to the article, “When kids let someone know they’ve hurt their feelings in a personal way, there’s a strong likelihood that the other kid will take that own” I also relate to this because when I post things on social media, I don’t post it to hurt someone’s feelings but mostly because I think my friends would find it funny. I think that this is mostly how most teenagers feel across the world because most of them also don’t post things online in order to hurt someone but to share what they think is funny.

This text gave me an insight into how Facebook’s team is trying to teach people empathy and how they are trying to make facebook a better place for people. This is shown by them creating means of reporting a post. With users reporting the post they allow them to inform the owner of the post how they have made them feel.