It's Not The End Of The Story

While thinking of what to write today, I started a shuffle on my playlist. The first song that began playing was "Comfort Crowd" by Conan Gray. This had me thinking about how, when you're lonely, the silence messes with your head. In the beginning, it starts with “Begging on my knees, screaming ‘Someone come and help me…", then continues into “But by the time they’re there I’ve already hidden the body." This shows how when all you have is yourself, you can spiral and do things you might not normally do in your right frame of mind. Being alone gives you time to think, then you start to overthink. Overthinking leads you to act on your thoughts. In this case, it's taking someone's life, but that is just an exaggeration for how you're not yourself without your comfort crowd. 
This led me to listen to more of Conan Gray's discography, a few days ago, he came out with "The Story". This song was about repressing parts of yourself in fear that society won't accept you. The song starts out with a boy and a girl being bullied, which led to them not loving themselves, the verse ends with "now they're gone, headstones on a lawn." After another verse, the chorus erupts with "I'm afraid that's just the way the world works..." All in all, this song is about how society makes people feel stuck, they run from themselves to please others. It provides a bittersweet ending, "It's not the end of the story." This is the perfect ending for the song, it tells people that there is more than hate in the world. You can find happiness, and not all people will judge you for who you are. 
I want to be a psychologist when I graduate from college, and I think that these songs helped me to see different vantage points of the world, problems people go through, and how they cope. That they need to know, it's not the end of the story. Judgment and loneliness can be hard to go through, but I want to be able to show people that it will end. That they will come out the other side stronger than they were before. Music can provide messages that can be helpful with problems that you encounter in your own life. For me, as a wannabe psychologist, it provided me with another perspective on life, and I'm glad to have heard these songs.
I'll keep you updated. 
- Michelle

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