Soundtrack of My Life

Song: Second Chance
Artist: Shinedown
Album: The Sound of Madness (2008)

Hearing this song actually made my day today. I'm not even joking.

Work looked like it was going to be complete crap and then this came on the radio and things got better. Work was still fairly craptacular, but at least I had Shinedown.

What makes this song even better to me is that it's about taking chances and following your dreams; breaking away from the image and dreams your parents hold out for you and realizing that the most important thing in the world is living your life for you, because in the end, you're the one who has to be happy.

Honestly, I wish I could have figured that out a long, long time ago. I wouldn't have spent thousands of dollars earning a Psych degree with an HR minor from Waterloo or spending nearly five years twiddling my thumbs at the casino.

I would have followed the love of English and writing that was in my heart coming out of high school and taken a journalism degree or an English Lit degree and gotten on this path that I am on a long time ago.

The good thing is that I am here now and things are slowly falling into place.

And whenever I get frustrated or negative about it, there is Shinedown.