Signature Assignment Engl 2015 - The Good Part
Signature Assignment Engl 2015 - The Good Part
Signature Assignment Engl 2015 - The Good Part
Good Part
By: Alivia Watson
What is it?
“The Good Part”
Is a song by the band AJR which was
released in June 2017.
Good Thing #7:
This amazing video shows the journey of a woman with breast cancer and the moment she finds
out she beat it. She went through 16 rounds of chemo and a double mastectomy and never lost
hope. Today, she lives the result.
Again, the emotional ones always seem to make the top of the list. This woman shared her story
and many others commented with similar experiences. She did not do it for fame or recognition,
she posted this video full of pride and accomplishment, spreading a message of perseverance
and hope to all.
Fighting through something like this and surviving is a GOOD thing. Then again, she would not
be posting this video if she skipped right to the end. Her journey was her good thing as well.
“You can’t appreciate the good times
without the bad ones.”
-Beyoncé Knowles
The Pressure to “Skip” the In-Between
Don’t get me wrong, I love this song and I’ve enjoyed researching it and finding
awesome videos that use it, but I feel like society has created this “pressure” to
fast-forward through the present so we can see the end result. But that’s the thing: the
present is when we learn certain lessons and find the people and places that we need to
build our future “good part.”
So, why is today not the good part?
Yes, there will always be “better days ahead,” but those days could be today or
tomorrow. Ahead could mean anything. I think, the best days of our lives are the
in-between days. The ones with work, ups and downs, starting over, and all kinds of
emotions. Skipping past those means you also skip past the good. Those small things
that may go unnoticed now but looking back you realize they were, in reality, the good
part.
I think we decide what that is. Each video I added in this project was deeper than just
the end. I think that each one had a story to tell before the “good part” came. Every
word I used relates to not only every single video, but I think every single person. The
things that we go through in our lives, the in-between, require determination,
perseverance, and a fight, all of which leads to progress and ultimately achievement and
success. For me, the journey is the good part. Without it, nothing else would be possible.