essay draft 2

Humans in this world want to live a meaningful/meaningless life, everyone thinks differently about their life and wants to live it their way of what they think is right. In Andy’s class we define a meaningful life as what you define yourself or what others define it as. Everyone thinks that their life is in their control but no one sees that they are in the small influence of the culture around them. Most people’s perspective of a goof life is mainly on family ad friends. By looking at how we are influenced in our lives we can see the true meaning that is portrayed to use through biased media. Through out the class we notice what is meaningful in our lives and connected it with others. Then we looks at others view through interview and connected them together. By looking at that we can tie it all back to our culture and how each person is affected in the same way and how no one has control of their life.
To analysis our lives each person in our class made a video of what we think is meaningful in 2-5mins. Before this project I though that the only thing in my life that is meaningful is my memories but there were good and bad memories in my life but each one is meaningful in their own different way. After taking some time to think about it I dragged out the most important things in my memories. Which were family, friends, arts and nature. Spending time to think about how i portrayed them and how to show my video was a hard process. By capturing most of my life i was able to see how somethings i have done was in every one's videos and shows how we are not different from each other. Even though i was missing a lot of my hobbies in my current life still showing the general stuff shows the world my perspective.
Through out our lives we are not really thinking freely but we think we are, because of our mass controlling media like in music and films they show how in our lives we need to become this. In our class we watched music videos that show to be successful in life is good and to accomplish your dream is also a big message placed out there like in "the good life". In "best in show"it show how we should spend money on things we don't need like therapy that shows how people has the answers but it them who "suppose" to help you find it but it's just a waste of money. Also looking at "lip gloss" the music video it shows how no one sees the real you just the out side version and not what you are really thinking. looking at all these dominate messages show how our lives a messed up and we have no power of what we think is right or wrong.