The Soundtrack of My Senior Year;

Take out the Gunman by Chevelle starts off my year with a thumping beat. I have everything together. I know I can make it. I know I'm gonna do good, kick butt, make it through. I feel like everything alright, POINT is going good, art seems to be flowing through me like a stream on the way to it's river and then ocean. I feel like I'm gonna beat depression to the end of the line. I feel like everything's going good for those first few months. I suck in my first few breaths, getting into the feel of it. "I woke.. Where the light hit me right in the temple.." Everything is on, from the sting of winter air to the feeling of a sun on my shoulders as I walk home every day. I feel as if I am prepared and nothing, NOTHING will take me down. "Had to shoot, had to fight... Gonna take out the gunman.."

The next few months are punctuated by cords of Something to Believe In by Young the Giant. The days are getting a little longer, headaches pressing in. I don't know what to do about much. I am...