I've been thinking this for a while now, let's see if it goes anywhere. I happened to remember
this funny thread and thought that since we seem to have lots of musical people in the crew, something similar could be done with the songs.
Therefore: define your life with three songs. Not necessarily your favorite songs or ones that you even listen to very often, but three songs that have something (music, lyrics, whatever) that make you think "yeah, that's so familiar."
Mine in no particular order:
. The whole "memento mori" feeling of that song resembles one of my fundamentals, namely that you can be a total bum under the bridge or Barack Freaking Obama, and still one day you will die, be buried like the rest and your headstone will likely look pretty much the same as those of the 1,000 guys next to you. So you might as well laugh at it.
. I'm the "call this guy" of my social circles when someone needs something, but not when someone wants to go and have a drink in a bar. You know, that pleasant guy who just doesn't know how to say "no". Lately (for the last few years) I have started filtering out people who do that, but I just can't get over my nature. That might also be why I do quite a lot of volunteer work, which rarely gets praised, but often is a reward in itself.
. mostly for the laughs, but partly true. I tend to drift from one place to another and rarely form long term contacts. I don't, for example, have any idea what my best childhood friends are doing nowadays, or even most of the guys I went to high school with. After four years of university I know plenty of nice people to hang around with, but I frankly don't think we'll be in much contact after we graduate.