How Kanye West Album touched me...

When i first sat down and listened to 808's and heartbreak, I told myself, this album is depressing!! Then the more I listened to it, the more I started to understand and feel the same emotions behind the songs and chords on the tracks. I started to think of my life and the things and people in it and the people who walked out of it...A lot of people and things in my life were at one time a fairy tale but now i see them in my nightmares...as in Kanye's song "See you in my nightmares" So as I sit in my dorm room alone the day after Thanksgiving and reflect on previous years, situations, and random things, I realize that things that I wanted and had at times really didnt mean as much as I thought they did. The important things are a happy life that goes beyond material things like... love, meaningful relationships, friends, family and being real. Being able to be real is so important in this life because once that is gone, what do you really have? Not just being real with other people but as well as yourself! And if you were to lose the important people in your life, there is nothing to bring them back. buying a car, buying clothes, buying jewelry buying anything can never bring them back. Kanye's album woke me up and reminded me that all the things that we see and chase on TV cannot make us nearly as happy as the great people in our life can. Not all the BlackBerry's, all the Polo Shirts, all the Air Max's in the world are as important as anyone who I consider a friend or family to me. the album helped me to refocus my search on happiness from things that would make me look fly to a bunch of strangers to doing things that are fly to myself and my friends and family. In Kanye's song welcome to heartbreak he says "My friend showed me pictures of his kids, and all i could show him was pictures of my cribs/ he said his daughter got a brand new report card, and all i got was brand new sports car/ Dad crack a joke all the kids laugh, but i couldnt hear them all the way in first class/ Chased the good life my whole life long, looked back on my life and my life gone! where did i go wrong?" That line hit me so hard...most of the things people live for and die to get mean nothing at the end of the day. Instead of living for the moments in life that Kanye speaks about in "street lights" they live for things that i have dollar value but no real value in comparsion to other things in life. And like in "Street lights" i know my destination but Im just not there yet...but on the way I will live for the moments and for the people that I would die for...but like in "Pinocchio Story" it seems like I have everything figured out by I always wonder about real love...and what it truly is and whether or not I will truly find it, The true love I thought I had, was a fairytale and now is a nightmare...I just wanna be happy and have the people in my life that make me happy and one day, hopefully I will meet that person to bring happiness to me and i can share my happiness with them and live happily ever after....I just wan to be Happy..Thanks Kanye.