Blog 3

Music and the Syrian Crisis Today

I read about the people living in refugee camps and it really touched me. I could not imagine if that was what I was doing right now and where I was going to sleep every night.

For a lot of those people I feel like music was their way of getting away from where there at in the moment and escaping in a form of music. I think us today can relate to that in a sense. Yes, there in a refugee camp. They've been ran out of their homes and are living in horrible situations but music has a way of letting people escape. That's what music has always been for me. An escape, I tend to if I'm not in the greatest mood or if something went wrong that day I will get out and drive around in my car and listen to music and what kind of music I play usually reflects my mood. I feel like that's what these people in Syria are doing today. They're expressing their feelings in a song, you could see the emotion on the man's face as he's singing about how the world is strange, and being far away from home. Music has a way of making you feel emotions and it's a good way to express those emotions. So, that's how I feel music is playing in this middle eastern crisis today... it is a way for people to show how they're feeling, the stuggle, the pain, the loss. Hopefully one day those songs of pain will not be so painful for them and they will be able to go home and reunite with their families.