Day One: Your Favorite Song

When I first came upon the song that would turn out to be my favorite, it came to me in a time that I needed it most. My best friend sent me the lyric "I'm sorry that in your condition the sunshine's been missing, but don't believe that it isn't there. Be happy, this world can be ugly but isn't it beautiful" only a few days after my Great-Grandpa died.

But I didn't truly fall in love with the song until a year after that, when Ruth was nowhere to be seen, and I was spiraling. I would lay on my bed for hours at a time, listening to that song until I had the will to move again. It inspired a work of fiction, something I still hold dear today. It inspired a main character that turned out to be my best friend throughout my depression, and even to this day. She is my favorite character.

A few months ago, Jack's Mannequin released the true, recorded version of the song (I'd only had a live recording of it up until this point) and I fell in love all over again. I sat there and cried as I listened to the words again, the words that meant so much to me.

It's still the song that I listen to when I get sad. It's still what I keep in my head when I can't find the will to move. It's my song. Always my song.

There, There Katie - Jack's Mannequin.