The Music of My Life

Recently, I read somewhere about coming up with 10 songs that define different periods of your life.  At first, I thought this would be really easy but it was actually quite hard.  So many songs came to mind, but did they really define my life at that time?  Some did, but others were just the first song that conjured up memories of my teen or college years.

Here are my picks…

Birth – Preschool: Christ Came Walking Down by the Water, If I Were a Butterfly, White Coral Bells

When I was little, most of the ones I sang or come to mind from my childhood were mainly songs I learned at church, especially Bible school.  One of my favorites was Christ Came Walking Down by the Water, which according to my parents I used to sing while I walked up and down the beach at Stone Harbor.  Apparently, I thought I was Christ…  The last song was the lullaby my grandma sang to me.

Elementary School: Jesus is the Light, Pharaoh, Blessed Be, This is the Day

Do we see a pattern here with the church songs?  Whether it was church camp, Sunday school or Bible school, I was singing my heart out to one of these songs.  Those experiences and these songs did define my childhood. The last song was special because it was the first song I remember learning at Lakeside in God Squad.

Middle School:  Peaches, Gangsta’s Paradise, Wannabe

Ah and the tables turn…  These songs definitely did not define my middle school years but are the first titles that come to mind when I think of those years.  I remember singing these or listening to them on…wait for it… a Walkman on the bus ride to school.

High School:  Because I Got High, Graduation, Big Pimpin’

Again, these didn’t define high school but I always think of them when high school comes to mind.  My aunt hate the last one and I remember her turning the radio off when it came on.  Ha ha!

College: Hot in Herre/ Unbroken/I Would Walk 500 Miles

Hot in Herre was the song I remember from my first frat party at Mount Union.  The priest at La Roche used the lyrics from Unbroken for his baccalaureate homily.  It was pretty interesting.  And I Would Walk 500 Miles was on our mix CD for away tennis matches at Mount Union.

Annapolis: Jesse’s Girl

I remember blasting this on the way to the beach on Saturday mornings with the windows down and the warm air blowing through my, at the time, long hair.

Lakeside: All Summer Long

This was the song that we sang and played over and over during my two summers at Lakeside.  I will always feel blessed to have had those two summers with my sisters and summer sisters. 

And now…I’m not really sure what song defines my life at the moment.  That my friends may take some more time but for now these 10 (OK, I listed a few more) were hard enough.

Try it…see if you can come up with 10!  Do you have any suggestions for my list?  What did I miss?

Isn't it awesome how much of a role music really does play in our lives...