\\ I used to wonder 'how's it going to be' - now I know. //
HELLO 23.
I am happy to be 23. Birthdays are a wonderful time to reflect and look at how far you have come and how much positive changes have happened over the past year.
When I turned 22, I thought it would be one of my favorite years since I was born on the 22 of the 2nd month of the year. While in reality, 22 was not the fairly tale I thought it would be. There is a latin quote that has always really spoken to my life and is a motto I go by. "Ex Malo Bonum" meaning out of bad comes good. This past year is my faith to that statement. There was negative, but all the positivity and beauty out shined it. Sometimes a bad experience needs to happen so that a wonderful experience can happen after.
Over the past year, my bond with music has grown even stronger. There are many songs that mean something completely different to me now than they did a year ago. That is the beauty of the bad in life. It helps you see the world, beauty, and creativity different than you did before.
After the clock striked midnight making it my birthday, I decide to make a playlist to capture all these songs and the memories that go with them. One by one picking songs that resonated with me over the past year and helped me keep breathing to 23. 23 songs plus an extra one for good luck. I wanted to share this playlist with the world and my future self. I am sure when I turn 33, 53, and 73 the songs I listen to will change, but when I go back to these songs - the meaning behind it and memories will always stay the same. I wanted to share it with the world because even though we are all so different - music shows us that inside we are all the same. Truly nothing makes me feel more alive inside than music and the meaning behind the beating poetry.