Country Western Music

Everyone has their opinions. We start forming likes and dislikes from a very early age. Some of our opinions are formed based on our own experiences and others we form based on what we hear from the people around us.

Because I gave you my heart, I gave you my life, and even so you hurt me twice... First you broke my heart and I cried, then you tore it apart and I died...
Author: Jacqueline A. Lee

Children readily pick up what the adults around them are saying. This is why most family members belong to the same political party and practice the same religion; it is what they grew up with. A great deal of what we value comes from what we were exposed to as children. At times we find that we change our opinion on something once we have experienced it for ourselves because the opinion was based on what we were taught rather than from personal experience.

In the family I grew up in my father liked to have things quiet. He worked very hard at his job and running a farm so when he sat down for the evening he did not like a great deal of noise or activity going on around him.

"We do our best to ignore what our heart is longing for."Blindside: Coming back to life
Author: Blindside: coming back to life

We could have the television on low or he would put on albums of classical music. It was the only music he would listen to. If we had the radio on and country western music or rock and roll would come on he would tell us to turn it off. He did not understand rock and roll and he thought country western music was hockey. I was exposed to rock and roll through my friends, radio and dances and like it. I did not listen to country western music at all. I held my fathers opinion of it. Then I started a dating a young man in college that listened to country western music all the time. He liked the beat of the music and the stories that most of the songs told.

I really liked him so when we started dating I put up with the music and tuned it out. We then went to a large outdoor concert that featured several of the hottest country western bands. From that point on I was hooked. I found that I also liked the stories the songs told and the music was fun to dance to. At the outdoor concert event I met several of my boyfriends friends. They taught me how to line dance to some of the songs. After college I moved to another city and so I lost touch with my boyfriend. Eventually I married my present husband and we are raising our family. I still listen to all kinds of music, but every time I hear country western music I think back to that concert and how I came to appreciate it. I try to let my children experience many different things growing up and try not to influence their opinions.

"We do our best to ignore what our heart is longing for."Blindside: Coming back to life
Author: Blindside: coming back to life

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