Song Lyrics I resonate with and Why (Pt.1)
1. You Might Not Like Her- Maddie Zahm
“You’ll lose your faith a bit and question if she's you. For a while, you may not like her, but I do”
“And you’ll miss the old you, but here's the deal. That good girl was really f*cking bad at being real”
Through lockdown I started my weight
loss journey and having a healthier mindset in doing so I became a happier more open person and making sure I knew that whatever I felt was valid.
A couple months ago I started thinking about before my journey who I was and how my problems I had then were not as big as my problems are now but also back then I always kept my emotions to myself because I thought I had to hide it and have a happy and strong exterior.
Yes, I have bigger problems now the difference is I always solve them with being open-minded and help with the people around me. I tell them when I'm struggling so I keep it real. I'm happier now but I still have hard times like most.
At times I don't recognise myself from a couple years ago and I may miss different parts of me from that time. I love looking back at the old me and looking at how far I’ve come even if I miss aspects of my life, I gain new ones.
2. Could Have Been Me- The Struts
“I wanna live better days never look back and say could of been me, it could of been me”
After lockdown I realised, I don't want to live life with regrets I came to this realisation because I thought I was going to be that person saying “I want to do that… Someday” but not acting on it until one day during lockdown I was just sick of letting life pass by me and I said “today is the day”
From that day I always lived life doing everything I wanted buying clothes I would have never bought before, taking every opportunity to have night out, going to every concert I want to and travelling as often as I can. Not all opportunities are only available to you. If someone else sees them, they might be tempted to pursue them. You can miss out on a lot of memories if you hesitate.
We simply don't know how long we have, so let's stop putting off life in the now in pursuit of a better tomorrow. Live today.
3. Grow As We Go- Ben Platt
“we're gonna see that it was better that we grew up together”
“Tell me you don't wanna leave cause a change is what you need you can change right next to me”
“When you're high, I'll take the lows you can ebb and I can flow and we’ll take it slow and grow as we go”
I couldn't pick just one lyric, this song is filled with noteworthy lyrics. It became important to me when I met my boyfriend because I thought if I changed, we would drift apart watch I didn’t want to happen.
However, we've both changed so much physically and mentally. I've learned you don't have to grow alone; we grew together, and we became stronger because of it. That is just in my opinion, but everyone is different and some would rather grow up independently.
I was once asked “if I could be single, would I?” I said “no”
they said “why?” they asked because they wouldn't have done half the things they've done in their life if they had a partner
to which I said “I would have done half things in my life if I didn't have a partner, he made me a better person and I will be forever grateful”
One thing I'm grateful for is unconditional love and support we give each other. We work as a team when either of us are feeling low the other will be the best supporter and cheer the other up.
4. Chaotic- Tate McRae
“I have this paralysing fear that I'll maybe go nowhere. But God forbid me ever admitting I could be scared”
These lyrics hits the deepest, I didn't know this was a fear of mine until I heard it. I do have a fear that I won’t accomplish what I want to do in my life mostly with my career path and each time I think about it I get this tightness in my chest.
when I sit alone with my thoughts my head often drifts off to think about if I’ll ever make it in my career path or get stuck in a job that I hate just trying to make ends meet, letting down my family. Admitting that this is how I feel sometimes is big for me because I've not told anyone.
when I started to think this, I breathe and focus on the present all I can do is work as hard as I can well and love, laugh and live through it all because in this moment that's all I can do. Also don’t try and be perfect all the time because you will set such a high standard for yourself that are going to impossible to achieve.
5. Cut You Off- Little Mix
“I know there’ll be tears, but it's worth a broken heart if I can't protect my energy. I've gotta do what's best for me I think I'm finally ready to cut you off”
Throughout my life I've lost some friends, it can be upsetting sometimes because I made a lot of memories with the friends I had, I never knew why the friendship turned sour.
Last year I started to blame myself what was so wrong with me that made people left, and I couldn't pinpoint it. I even started asking my friends looking for the brutal truth, but nothing came up.
After crying repeatedly about yet another person giving up on our friendship it started to take a toll on me mentally. However, this lyric help me realise you may have to cut people out your life and it may hurt but do it in your own time and it’ll work it better in the end and you’ll grow from it. Also, I've learned that you don't have to cut them out permanently, if at that moment the friendship is hurting you in any way you can take time for yourself and let them in to your life again when you're ready.
