Never forget: the soundtrack.

I've always associated music with memories and emotions. Certain songs just pick me up and bring me back to a time and/or place in a really powerful and vivid way. Example: Tears for Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule the World. This song takes me right back to being five years old in the summertime; sparkling and carefree. I guess that explains my obsession with 80s music. Nostalgia.
I'm not sure if, since becoming aware of this, I subconsciously set a marker in my brain so that years down the road a song will inevitably remind me of said time, or maybe I'm just that much of an observant and nostalgic person. I guess what I'm wondering is if it's voluntary? Natural? Hurrr...

Talk about over-thinking something that need not be over-thought!

I felt it important to draft up an actual "soundtrack" for this past summer and keep it on file; keep it somewhere safe. Attached to these songs are fond memories of everything this summer had to offer - adventures, travels, love, forging old bonds with old friends; forming new bonds with new friends. This summer was a "big deal" and holding onto it, as well as every memory and emotion attached, is important to me. Does this sound sappy? It's really not supposed to be. Well, not entirely.
I wanted a way to, in a sense, keep this past summer alive.

So, here it is.
Some songs new, some old, but all relevant.