Theme song.

The theme song of my life seems to be the hardest article I have to do so far. I’ve been going through my iTunes and I find so many songs that reflects who I am. My life has been based on music, coming from the family where music is everywhere. My grandmother sings almost everyday at home and winning multiple awards doing us very proud. My mother has piles of CDs, from Bee Gees to Madonna to Anita Mui. I grew up listening to my grandmother’s singing, Mariah Carey, The Carpenters and to The Little Mermaid. I memorized every single song on every Disney cartoon I ever had.

I’m sure everyone has their fair share of musical embarrassments. I had mine too. Since I was from an English speaking family, Chinese was my worst subject. But since boybands was all the rage back then, I wanted to fit in. so I bought 5566 CDs and tried to memorize the songs and tried to know everything I could about them. Looking back at it now, buying those records didn’t let me fit in, it just made me waste so much of money, time and effort and I learnt nothing at the end of it all.

Now I have to think of a theme song about my life and give and explain why I chose this song. It is not the easiest task to do since I have a whole lifetime of songs to choose from. So after scrolling through every single song I have in my laptop, I finally have the song I was looking for. Time Of Your Life by Greenday. Because from experience, I’m sure life is always unpredictable, there are always ups and downs, you’ll never know what comes next. You have love, you lose someone precious. But in the end of it, you learn from it. Because what doesn’t kill you only makes you stronger. Life is nothing but a journey. Which is why, at the end of it, when I’m on my deathbed, I want my last thoughts to say the I had the time of my life, before I pass into the afterworld. Which is why I chose this song, to remind myself that I should live my life to the fullest so that I can have the time of my life.