Daylight

 

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While reading this chapter I realized that I wasn’t using Snapchat during its prime run. I think my parents let me download the app during my senior year of high school. All my friends had Snapchat and I was grateful to finally feel included. When I first started using Snapchat I did not know what to do with it. I mostly used it to take funny photos with my little siblings. Now, I like it because of the number of filters that one can find. On other applications I spend too much time looking at weird filters, but on Snapchat there are more that fit the aesthetic I am seeking. I like and dislike the memories feature. Sometimes it shows nostalgic photos that leave me feeling good. Other times it shows cringy photos that I would rather not remember. I thought it would be funny to go through my Snapchat memories from today so that is what we are going to do.

Taylor?

Two years ago, I was at a Harry Styles concert in Cleveland. I had never been to

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Cleveland before so it was a new experience driving there. My friends met me in Ada. We got ready and then headed to the venue. It was a long drive there, but even a longer drive back. This photo is of us getting collected in the bathroom. I forgot we wore masks to this concert. The feather boas got fuzzy stuff everywhere! I painted my own boots, but they were comfortable! I also took a photo of the disco ball at the concert. I made a joke that Taylor and Harry Styles were in the same room. (Taylor has a song called mirrorball if you missed that blog.)

Puppy

This memory is from three years ago. I took Zach to meet my nana and grandpa for the first time. My nana breeds purebred golden retrievers. She had a litter of puppies a few weeks before this photo. Zach did not grow up with animals. He was a bit skittish, but I made him hold at least one puppy. When I was little I used to help birth the puppies, but now I can’t be in the building. I like playing with them when they are a little bigger and covered in less fluid.

The song I chose for this blog is Daylight because Taylor Swift and Harry Styles both have a song with that title. I also have a tattoo inspired by these songs. Daylight was a full circle song for Taylor. It showed the growth that she has been through in terms of songwriting. She ended the song with an outro of her speaking. It is worth the listen, but these are the words. “I wanna be defined by the things that I love, Not the things I hate, Not the things that I'm afraid of, I'm afraid of, Not the things that haunt me in the middle of the night, I, I just think that, You are what you love.”