“Funny the way it is, not right or wrong. Somebody's broken heart become your favorite song. Funny the way it is, if you think about it, one kid walks 10 miles to school, another's dropping out.” I will never forget the first time the song, Funny the Way It Is, by the Dave Matthews Band made sense to me. I was listening to the Dave Matthews Band Pandora station after I had just played my worst round of golf of the summer after having just played my best round of golf the day before. I was twelve years old at the time and was very upset. All I wanted was to get my mind off of everything because I didn’t understand how I could go from playing my best to my worst over the course of two days. Neither my life nor did the song make any sense to me,
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I went out and had a terrible first hole, making a double bogey. I then played my next 17 holes flawlessly going 5-under and felt that for once in my golf career, everything was working how I wanted it to. I woke up the following day and felt that it could be another great day. I had a really tough round and just as everything went right for me the following day, everything went wrong for me the next, shooting 80. It was almost as if I lost all ability to do anything right in golf. I ended up finishing third and in complete shock. I couldn’t fathom that these two extremes could occur so close to each other. I started to question why extremes would happen in life because I was sure this wasn't the first time where I experienced events that are so opposite you couldn’t even imagining them …show more content…
This song makes me confused on why things happen in life the way they do. It makes me sad because when you think about someone suffering while another person has everything, I tell myself that it is no fair. This sadness for others turns into anger because people don’t deserve these bad outcomes if they worked hard or not. No one deserves what life sometimes has to offer. After all these feelings of confusion and just negativity, it all turns into happiness for me. The reason is because I realize how lucky I am. So maybe I didn’t win that golf tournament and possibly my competitive golf career is over, but the rest of my life is great which i am thankful for. I am happy that I don’t have a daily struggle to survive and that most unfortunate things that happen in my life aren’t of the magnitude of examples in the song. I learned to appreciate life
I went out and had a terrible first hole, making a double bogey. I then played my next 17 holes flawlessly going 5-under and felt that for once in my golf career, everything was working how I wanted it to. I woke up the following day and felt that it could be another great day. I had a really tough round and just as everything went right for me the following day, everything went wrong for me the next, shooting 80. It was almost as if I lost all ability to do anything right in golf. I ended up finishing third and in complete shock. I couldn’t fathom that these two extremes could occur so close to each other. I started to question why extremes would happen in life because I was sure this wasn't the first time where I experienced events that are so opposite you couldn’t even imagining them …show more content…
This song makes me confused on why things happen in life the way they do. It makes me sad because when you think about someone suffering while another person has everything, I tell myself that it is no fair. This sadness for others turns into anger because people don’t deserve these bad outcomes if they worked hard or not. No one deserves what life sometimes has to offer. After all these feelings of confusion and just negativity, it all turns into happiness for me. The reason is because I realize how lucky I am. So maybe I didn’t win that golf tournament and possibly my competitive golf career is over, but the rest of my life is great which i am thankful for. I am happy that I don’t have a daily struggle to survive and that most unfortunate things that happen in my life aren’t of the magnitude of examples in the song. I learned to appreciate life