My Music Journal: January 13, 2025

 

Monday, January 13, 2025

Time: 11:13 AM
Song: Why Pt. 2
Artist: Collective Soul
Mode of Consumption: Spotify – List of possible songs from the year 2000 for Mixtape Challenge.

Link to song: https://open.spotify.com/track/7ldnttFcRZRgfLSNmDbSSg?si=640f86194d3d474c

This is the first post concerning my Mixtape Challenge to create a playlist of songs from 2000-2004.

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Back from when things weren’t the same.

I graduated from high school in May of 2000 and enrolled at Northern Illinois University that fall. I imagine like most of my peers, I spent copious amounts of time trying to figure out where my life was going.

I mean, certainly I spent time pre-graduation looking at career books and college major descriptions. Most of the time, I came away feeling like I could do about any of the things listed, but didn’t have a real inclination to do any of it. At least not to the degree where I would say that, “Yeah, that’s what I want to be when I grow up.”

I guess at 42 and nearing my tenth year at my second career, I realize that I probably won’t ever know what I want to be when I grow up. For one thing, in my head, part of me is still 18. I like music. I like playing games. I still daydream about a lot of the same stuff that I did then.

If I could go back to then, I would say don’t take things so seriously.

I would say work on the relationships that seemed to be crumbling but were only changing.

Don’t be afraid that many things didn’t feel the same and embrace that the changes simply meant that new aspects of life were beginning.

I would say don’t worry about what others think so much.

Be brave. Be thoughtful. Be happy.

Don’t expect that any sort of money or job security is going to make a significant difference in your head and heart.

Appreciate those closest to you, they won’t be there forever.

Dream and live.

My five choices from 2000. These tunes are blend of songs that I either listened to a lot or feel like fit my memory of what was going on during that year:

1. Why Pt. 2 by Collective Soul
2.  Ms. Jackson by Outkast
3. One-Armed Scissor by At the Drive-In
4. To Be Young (Is to Be Sad, Is to Be High) by Ryan Adams
5. Bohemian Like You by The Dandy Warhols