So here I am, sitting in my room looking at the desperately blank white screen in front of me. The small thin black line disappearing then reappearing in front of me almost taunting me. I have my music library on shuffle and with each song, as the first few notes begin to play, a memory floods back to me. Some good and some rather upsetting. Why I even have some of these songs baffles me. Like really, why do we as people keep the songs that remind us of such hard times in our lives? Maybe for the same reason we keep songs that put smiles on our faces, because we as humans like to feel nostalgia, and the emotions that come with it.
So here is the challenge, share this article on your profile and with it, write a song or two that brings back memories but be sure to write what those memories are. Now I can't challenge you without starting it off. I'll be generous here and list a few.
1. Check Yes Juliet - We The Kings
This song is a classic for anyone in my generation. I mean every high school kid was into that punk rock popish kind of stuff for a brief time. Don't lie. This brings me right back to high school or maybe even middle school. I remember the rush of an innocent crush I had on a girl right about this time. Never got the guts to speak up.
2. The Great Escape - Boys Like Girls
This was right about the same time as Check Yes Juliet but the two had pretty different meanings. A friend of mine, Tori, lived on the same block as me. We were close, grew apart over the years, but we were like two peas in a pod. This was our song, when ever it plays, I instantly remember that I will always have a friend who I can trust with anything. Growing up together, we went through the same hardships and we got to see each other grow. One text a way and a simple conversation can become a "great escape".
3. Smoked Filled Room - Mako
This song will probably echo in my head for a long time. This song first played in my car on my way up to New York. I was visiting a few friends and somethings were playing out in my life that were unexpected. The song was like I was on the Truman Show and they wrote this about me. So it fit, but on the ride back home, this song became something different. This song was blasting about 6 a.m. when I spun of the road going 80 mph on I-95. I luckily hit the very beginning of the guard rail which ricochet my car back onto the road rather then the ditch filled with trees. So this one brings back some flash backs.
4. Waiting On The World To Change - John Mayer
Hearing this brings some values at me feet. It reminds me of who I am and it sets my head back into the direction I know it should be. First time I heard this song, I thought wow, he is right. This world is doomed, politics is fixed, the environment is in the hole, and the morality of humanity is nothing more then a prehistoric idea. Then I thought, how pessimistic. Why sell out the world before you even get up to bat. You might as well take a few swings. This world is a wreck and it's puzzle pieces are all over the floor, but I'm gonna try my hardest to pick them back up and do what I can and what I believe is right.
