It’s the oldest story in the world. One day, you’re seventeen and planning for ‘some day’, and then quietly and without you ever really noticing, ‘some day’ is today. And then ‘some day’ is yesterday. And this is your life.
In English 10, we were asked to read our favourite poem or song to the rest of the class. One of my classmates recited the lyrics to a song called “I Don’t Want To Be” by a singer named Gavin DeGraw. It was the theme song of a show she liked called One Tree Hill. As a teenager who was struggling to figure out who I was amidst the pressures of people telling me who I was supposed to be, the song’s message of finding the courage to just be you resonated with me.
Out of curiosity, I decided to check out One Tree Hill and see what it was all about, and from that day forward, I was hooked.
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