I am in my freshmen dorm with the door closed. I hear my floormates running around and laughing and just having a great time out in the hallway, but I'm lying in bed wiping away a stream of tears. It's spring semester and I just failed my fourth test since I came to this school. I'm not happy. I don't enjoy my major, or the career path I planned, or the exams that everyone else seems to do so well on that I can't even muster up a C-. I feel like a failure and financial burden to my parents. I hear this song and the tears just burst out of me once more. But then I listened to the lyrics and repeated them in my head. Those words rang hope in me and gave me the courage to completely reevaluate my life and the path I was heading towards. A few months later I switched into a Media major with a Music minor and now I have a smile to my face. Three years later I now have my college degree and a lot of fear and excitement about the competitive field of Art and Entertainment, but I still listen to this song to feel that same hope.

 

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