I am finally done with my 12 years of public education. It lasted forever, and I am so ready to move on with the rest of my life. I have faced many challenges throughout my academic journey, and in the beginning they were typical challenges: middle school mean girls, high school assholes, broken friendships, etc. But I have also battled insomnia, PTSD, depression, and anxiety, which aren't necessarily "normal" issues to have in life. They also aren't the worst, but keep in mind, no one has truly defined what "the worst" in life is. We all have a rock bottom. Some of us just haven't gotten there yet. Mine was when I self-harmed my Junior year. Luckily, I was seeing a great therapist at the time, and since then we've worked out how to handle my self-hate and I'm on meds that have really stabilized my mood. I am doing so much better and It's crazy to see how far I've come as a human being.

This soundtrack is a audio representation of how I felt in multiple stages of my life. As in, where I was mentally, how I was feeling, and what was going on in my head. These are in chronological order, beginning when I was in 6th Grade at Trinity Christian School in Illinois, and ending my senior year of Lake Norman High School in North Carolina. The teen years are a rough time, and I think these songs document that struggle well. I hope this soundtrack encourages people to push through to the end, because life really does get so much better with time. Trust me. I lived through it.