The Title Of Finding Me

The title of my playlist is, Finding Me. I decided to choose this as my title because all the songs I selected in the playlist reflects a common theme of being yourself, speaking out for yourself, and standing up for yourself. All of this connects back to one central idea of finding who you are. As my days in high school are approaching an end, I will soon become an adult. Right now, my fellow classmates, as well as myself, is trying to find who we are , what we will become in the future, and where we stand in the world. I decided to put my playlist in the order of “Ordinary Human” by Onerepublic to “I” by Taeyeon Kim, because this order shows a transition of being lost and not knowing who you are to finding yourself and being who you truly

The first song, “Human” by Christina Perri, was first introduced to me by a friend of mine. The first time I heard it, this song really stuck to me. I felt like this song was completely relatable. It shows the vulnerability of humans and how deeply society and the people around us affect who we are. There are several lines in this song that stood out for me such as, “Your words in my head, knives in my heart. You build me up and then I fall apart. 'Cause I 'm only human”, “I can turn it on. Be a good machine. I can hold the weight of worlds. If that 's what you need. Be your everything.” These lines were really meaningful to me because I can definitely relate to it. As a teenager soon to be an adult, I am constantly wondering who I really am. Often times I tend to find myself just doing things people tell me to do, like a machine, in hopes of finding myself. I used to think that if I did what people told me to do, then slowly I might find myself. Instead it was the opposite, as I continued to do so, I start losing who I really am. As I continued to feed into what other people tell me, I started becoming someone that was not me, but something that society views me

This song is about falling and then getting back up. It stresses how if you get hurt once, it is okay, just get back up even stronger. Although this song references a break up, it still is relatable in my life. In this song, one of the lyrics says, “What doesn 't kill you makes you stronger. Stand a little taller. Doesn 't mean I 'm lonely when I 'm alone.What doesn 't kill you makes a fighter. Footsteps even lighter.” These lyrics are saying that as long what hurts you does not causes you to lose yourself (“kill you”), then you will become stronger. As a teenager living in a society full of judgment and criticism, this song really reminded me of what I go through. There are countless times where I have failed or where people would tell me that what I am doing is not good enough, however this song motivates me to get back up. Although other people are judging or criticising me, if what I am doing is what I want to do and what I think it good, then everything is fine. Even if I am put down countless time, if what I am doing is for myself and if I am staying true to myself, I will only become