Clouds By Gary Sobiech Essay

Can someone make you so happy you feel like dancing in the clouds? The song I picked is Clouds by Zach Sobiech. I chose this song, because it says he fell down in a hole, but someone was there to pick him up. This was my year. I had some ups and downs through my 8th grade year, but there were three ways that helped me go through the downs and all the way through the ups. Swimming, friends and family all helped me up through hard times in my 8th grade life. My friends helped make my life better. They help me smile. I was having a rough day, but my friends helped me look up and smile. “And I needed a way to climb and grab a hold of the edge, you were sitting there holding a rope” (Sobiech). This quote from the song relates to my year because when I had a rough time my friends were there to help me. When I was struggling with putting my life together with a lot of stress, my friend was there to listen to my problems. This is like her holding a rope for me to help me make life a little easier. I had a rough time with …show more content…
This year was really stressful with friends and school . This year I learned what a “fake” friend can do to you internally. Swimming relives so much stress for me, because I can swim all my anger out. “Be ready to live and it’ll be ripped out of my hands”(Sobiech). This quote relates to this because I can finally live without all the worries and stress about friends or school if I swim. So swimming rips the worries and stress away from me. I learned that it is unhealthy to keep all your anger in. It can affect you internally and externally. Swimming is another alternative for me to let all my anger out instead of showing it towards other people. People can tell if you are happy or unhappy by your facial expressions, so people would ask me what happened. I don’t like talking to people about my feelings, so I would shut them down. This is how I hurt some of my relationship to my friends and