Movies and Music

It is safe to say that movies and music are a big part of our lives I believe. The level of importance is different for us all, but we have all expressed that music especially plays a huge part of our existence.

I was listening to the Daughtry station as I was doing dishes just now and when Linkin Park came on I pondered how upset Kimberly was every single time they played on a device I was listening to. I used to freak out when they came on when she was younger, gave her a hard time about it. I used to tell her she can blame Morgan for that but honestly, it is that she can thank Morgan.

I broke her movie Coyote Ugly, I griped about movies and music. I was wrong. I placed the importance on the wrong things.

My experience with D. and Metallica and the similar music, American Beauty and similar movies really made me freak out, when my kids especially, would watch things that put my mindset in a familiar light. I would watch physical, mental, and verbal/actions change in him as he listened/watched certain things and I assumed that we would all be that way. Morgan was able to get me to realize that we are all individuals and regardless of our environment we can choose to be different or the same despite our movie/music choices.

It still took a while to sink in fully, and took me a while to truly believe that we all make our choices based on how it makes us feel. I am not saying that a bank robbers child will not think it is ok/cool, and follow, or a smokers child to take up smoking, parents that swear will probably have children that swear, but an individual can choose to stop/do or not do the behavior that they have witnessed/are surrounded by.

Morgan was able to listen to music by those I thought were quite harsh and smile, help others, be kind, laugh and in general be a good person that has flaws but worked to correct them and just be a better individual than the day before. I could see for the first time that it was more the person than the music or movies, I focused on the wrong thing because of my very personal experiences.