Music and Traditions

Music and Traditions

Starting this blog I realized I can't remember any music from major events like my best friend's wedding or my grandpa or grandma's funerals. But I do remember music from being on sports teams!

Last January, it was the beginning of lacrosse season. Pre-season was BRUTAL with 3 practices a day and 1 class that lasted 3 hours everyday with also it being absolutely freezing. My teammates and I were exhausted to say the least. Waking up at 5:30 for practice was getting harder and harder to get up and have a good attitude/ mindset at these early practices. We had no idea what to do to get back into a good headspace before practice. We had music blasting everyday but it didn't really mean anything it was just to keep us awake. One day one of my teammates made a joke about quitting and I'm not sure how it happened but we connected the song "Hit the Quan" to wanting to quit. So if you one of us said "I'm going to hit the quan" that meant we were going through it and wanted to quit right then and there. We started playing this song EVERYDAY and it actually picked our spirits up. We all knew preseason was the roughest thing we were ever going to do endure while playing lacrosse so in a sense the song made us closer. We would all actually do the dance to while the song played and it was great and it made everyone feel a little lighter when getting into practice. 

A tradition with music currently is with my friends here at Converse! My friends; Kaitlyn, Brooklyn, Zoey and my girlfriend Aly love doing just about everything with each other. The one thing we don't do a lot together is all drive in the same car together since there is 5 of us. But anytime we are able or have to ride together we all have 1 song to go absolutely crazy to. Last year around this time it was "Come & Get It" by Selena Gomez. This year its "Satellites" by Kevin Gates or really anything by him. We will play one of these songs 1 time during the duration of the car ride and we will turn the music all the way up and all start dancing (all hitting the same dance move) for the whole song. The last time we were able to partake in this tradition was actually yesterday as we all went to Walmart. We all knew it was time to play our song and we all got into it. Even after we got back to campus we continued playing it in the parking lot of Belk until the song was finished.  I chose the song last year with mine being Selena Gomez and this year it's Brooklyn's artist. I hope my friends can keep up this tradition for the remainder of our college years. Even after going to exhausting events we still keep up this tradition and look forward to it every time.