While working on The Soundtrack of Our Lives assignment, I have come to some realizations. I realized how similar I am to my peers, even though we are all from different places. When we were selecting songs, it was so fun to hear the names of songs that I hadn’t listened to since middle school.
One of the big issues that came to me when we were working on this was so many of us picked songs that referred to depression, anxiety, etc. in some way. I find that incredibly sad. So many of us face depression, anxiety, or other mental illnesses in varying degrees. It is so common that it is almost normal. While it is very sad, it almost made me feel relieved that I wasn’t the only one that is continuing to struggle with things like this. We all suffer in our own silence sometimes but this assignment kind of let us let it out.
This project has also been very nostalgic to me and makes me think of the times when I listened to these songs and my life at that time. I think it is so cool how different our experiences are from others and how these songs and their connotations reflect that. It’s kind of like objective truth, everyone has their own and it isn’t the same for everyone. I love how music can represent so much, but still just be something to listen to.
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