Champion(As a Verb)

I've been wanting to make a list of songs that I would consider the "soundtrack to my life." The list of songs would include one song each for different things that I thought represented me. One song would represent my childhood, one song would represent how I felt about love, one song would represent where I hope to be in the future, and so on and so forth, until I compiled an entire cd worth of songs that I felt accurately depicted my life.

When trying to go about this task, however, I came up with all kinds of challenges. Was there a way to really capture an entire aspect of who I am with just one song? How well would those songs depict what I would want them to depict?

Also, I realized that a lot of the songs would be time specific. I might feel that the songs I chose reflected very well what I wanted them to reflect, but maybe that was only so because I had listened to those particular songs lately.

To add on to the time specificity, each of the songs I would pick could easily be replaced tomorrow by a song that I felt better reflected what I hoped to depict.

This really troubled me, because I was really hoping to compile this cd and play it back, and possibly reflect on my life in the past, my life in the present, and how I envision my life in the future. Since I've failed at making this cd, I picked one song that I feel could represent me in my entirety.

Although it's impossible for a song to represent every aspect about me, I think that the song I chose is the song that best defines who I am. This song is "Little Bit" by Lykke Li.

This song is great because it is such an honest song that dares to delve into the parts about you that you probably don't talk about very often. There's elements of honesty, insecurity, trust, and love. These are all things that I've found myself dealing with my entire life.

Although the song was probably written with something very specific in mind, I feel that I can relate it to most all different parts of me. A major part of my life is figuring out what love is. What does it have to do with me? Why do I feel it for the few people I do feel it for? Where does it come from? Does it really exist? Like any other 19 year old, I'm curious as hell about love. It's fucking fascinating and I'm constantly on the lookout for ways that it affects me.