Note to 13-year-old self: That E.T. shirt rules, but never get a perm ever again. It will make your life SUCK.
As I’m sure everyone who’s ever attempted such a thing will tell you, picking out songs to compose your musical autobiography is an excruciating, maddening task. Thus when all of us hearingade contributors were asked to pick a mix of songs that define who we are, I panicked. “How do I approach this?” and “How in the hell do I even begin to pick songs?” quickly became “ARRRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!” *headslammingintodesk*
But, I powered through, for Abby. Dear, sweet, lovable Abby (who somehow thinks I’m worthy of writing for her site. what.).
So I present to you 12 songs that are important to me because they represent times when I learned some harder-than-shit life lessons. Songs that I can always listen to and remember how the proverbial DUH smacked me in the head and told me it was gonna be okay, and that my life would actually not suck forever. And it’s true, I am (now) far from suckage. In fact, my life is pretty damn great…you know, except for that whole “seeking approval from people who might actually read my writing” thing.
Chasing Amie: 12 Songs that Taught me Something
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Was it overwhelming? Looking to the past? When I finally found out, our team had come in last.
“Why Can’t I Be You” by The Cure
I’ll run around in circles ’til I run out of breath, I’ll eat you all up, or I’ll just hug you to death.
