Working Class Hero Assignment
Posted by admin on 14 Sep 2009 at 06:00 pm | Tagged as: My Journey
I began school last Tuesday and I LOVE it! It’s a huge adjustment and one I hope to conquer! I know I will.. I wish everyone could see why I am doing this. To better my family and myself. Show my kids that they must go after what they want and keep at it until you get it! I am trying sooooo hard to be a MOM first and spend as much time with my babies as I can… I was challenged on this today and it’s my prayer that I can figure out a way to resolve this as Daughters need time with their Mommies and Mommies need time with their daughter’s.
Ok, so I have this one class that is standing out from all the others. It’s Sociology to Leisure and it’s a cool one! OH, and as a mandatory part of my schooling I have to go to Leadership camp next week from Monday to Wednesday.. really looking forward to that.
So back to my first assignment in Sociology… we were to listen to the song below my John Lennon “Working Class Hero” and talk about what we think the song is about and the relevance to today. Well here is the song and here are my thoughts which I submitted to my Professor earlier this evening. I am sure if you have been reading my points you can see why I loved this assignment so much… HUGS! Xoxo
Working class Hero Assignment for Sociology of Leisure
What is this song was all about? What is its relationship to our present world?
As I was listening to this song the very first lyrics, “as soon as your born they make you feel small” really struck a chord with me. To me this song states very clearly how society dictates the rules in which we live and see things and are supposed to perceive the world. We refer to these people so often as “they” and I have always wondered who “they” really are. Are “they” our parents, our leaders, the wealthy or a bit of all of them combined together?
To me the song was talking about how society teaches us at such a young age to think from the outside in limiting our beliefs. We continue to follow their rules, follow all these beliefs until we finally need to find a way to break free. We need to break free from all the propaganda they’ve loaded us up with since the time we’ve been born.
In order to break free we need to start thinking from the inside out. We need to listen to what our inner voices are telling us and know that whatever we want we can break free and be just like the “people on the hill” instead of the “slaves” they want us to be.
I think John Lennon was urging us through his lyrics to wake up and see exactly the way things are instead of how “they” want us to see it; to take massive action and start asking some real questions. We need to take a stand and stand up for who we are and what we want.
This song still has such prevalence in today’s world and I have to admit that I am very passionate when speaking about this subject. From the time it was written to the present day still only 2% of the population hold the wealth in North America; only 2%!!! “They” still tell us how to think and we still follow aimlessly believing in all these limiting beliefs. Today, people are so quick to point out how they can’t do something rather than looking at how to actually make it happen or just believe that it can happen.
This song evoked such emotion in me when I first heard it and it still evokes the same emotions. I truly hope that in my lifetime I can teach people how to think from the outside in. We are the only ones that know what our potential truly is and we are the only beings that hold the power of thought- we can create things through our thoughts.
I say let’s break free from the social conditioning of the past and stand up and be our own heroes; not slaves to “them”! We can be anything we want to be and I say “fuck them!” We have the power to choose our own paths and will have the courage to continue on the path’s our minds can see.
