Journal 5 Brittani Velazco

Music means everything to me. Music was my backbone growing up. When I was having a hard time I'd sit in my room and blare my music and nothing would matter anymore. If I had a bad day and needed to feel better I would listen to music and I would feel better. I could always relate to music ever since I was young. My main choice of music is rock/metal. I love it all. Three Days Grace is one of my favorite bands. I feel this is the most true music all of there lyrics in these songs come from personal experience which I can always relate to. It is helpful especially when you're having a hard time because when you hear them singing about the same thing your going through you don't feel alone because someone else has experienced this and you know it just has to get better. Sometimes life feels like I'm stuck under a waterfall, things just keep happening and there's no way to get out of it it just keeps pushing you under and you feel like your drowning. One of my favorite song that has helped me get through things in the past and still continues to help me today is "Just Like You by Three Days Grace". These lyrics have always stood out so clearly to me "I could be mean

I could be angry You know I could be just like you". "You thought you were standing beside me
You were only in my way You're wrong if you think that I'll be just like you You thought you were there to guide me You were only in my way You're wrong if you think that I'll be Just like you". I can feel these lyrics in my soul because I have felt this all of my life until I cut ties with some of my family that had become very toxic to my children and I. This song is about being told how to live your life and finally deciding to stand up for yourself. My family never wanted me to marry my husband, be a stepmother, have another child, create my own life and choose how I want to live it. My family always wanted to have total control over me and if they didn't they weren't happy. Until I learned to live without them and that I could learn to live without being told what to do every step of the way I let them control me, until a year ago when I cut those ties and I have risen like the sun on a new morning ever since.

Three Days Grace, the name refers to a sense of urgency, with the question being whether someone could change something in their life if they had only three days to make a change.