It Might Not Mean Much to You...
I've written many times before about the importance of music in managing my mental health. Music itself, as well as song lyrics, have served as the soundtrack of my life for as long as I can remember. I've used music to help me to celebrate, I listen to it when I need to find serenity, and it has provided me inspiration when I needed to pick myself up off the floor. There are specific songs and artists that keep me emotionally connected to past experiences, and to important people in my life. Sometimes a song just gets to me, and I listen to it, analyze it, process it, and mold it in my mind, until it becomes part of that life's soundtrack. You get to a point in life where you start to consider what your life has meant: what purpose has my life served? Has my life been meaningful? What impact have I had?.. (I could go on...) Our culture pounds us, relentlessly, to convince us that success equals money, status, and ladder climbi...