I remember the first time I heard this version a month or so ago, it shot me in the heart.
Tears of sadness and joy ran down all at once.

The song definitely plays out my life at 17-- when I had my first heartbreak with my parents' divorce and my very own first breakup.
At that moment, you always think to yourself that you'll be okay. When you realize that you're not okay, you keep asking yourself when things will get better. You swear that things won't improve because so much has changed, you have changed... it will never be the same.
You wish you could be yourself again, and have things be back to the way they were.
You could weep, pray, and wish all you want only to realize that it is impossible.

It took me about two years or so to forgive and forget my breakup. It took me an additional two years to accept my parents' divorce.
Up to this day, I'll hear songs of the days that made me the most joyous at 16 years young, and of my reckless days at the age of 17, and I can still remember how everything changed. 

But I couldn't have asked for anything else, and teaching myself to overcome those days. I am happy that it happened because it only brought me to where I am standing today.
Even if things don't go accordingly, never stop wishing and dreaming.
Some light will shine through and project you to a place where you least expected.


Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would be worth it.