this playlist feels like hopelessness.

image from Psych Central

much like how i'm a mood reader and mood movie watcher, i'm a mood listener. when i listen to music, i don't just hear it. i feel it in my bones. i close my eyes and i feel the music deep within my soul and, more often than not, i will have scenes flash in my mind of what i believe this song could accompany. sometimes i get a glimpse of a group of people dancing a certain way. sometimes i experience a scene of utter despair. other times i can see a girl sitting on a train looking out the window. 

a lot of times, i like to pick songs to listen to at any given moment based on the type of feeling i want the music to give me. i don't know if i'm the only person that experiences music in such a way, but a large part of me believes that i cannot be alone in this. as such, i thought i would begin a little mini series on my blog where i share certain musical playlists dedicated to making the listener feel "some typa way", as the youngins call it nowadays.

these songs may not have lyrics that align with the main mood that i'm categorizing it as, but it's more the feel of the song that really gets it onto my list.

here are eleven songs that will make you feel like you're dearly missing something in your life, but you don't yet know what it is:

a comprehensive list of all my book boyfriends

i don't know if i'm the only one like this, but a major determining factor in my enjoyment of a novel is how much i fall in love with the main male love interest. i never typically enjoyed books that don't have any romance whatsoever, however in the last few months i've learned that i actually prefer no romance to bad romance any day (more on that in another future post.)

because of how drawn i am to literary romances and how deeply i fall in love with these characters, i decided to share a complete list of every single book boyfriend i've ever had and rank them from favorite to least favorite. this list only consists of characters that i've truly loved or swooned over, so the ones that just weren't it for me won't be here (*ahem* peter k., for instance.) i also have not yet read some other popular series, such as the dark artifices and an ember in the ashes, which i'm sure i definitely would have added if i'd read them. hope ya'll enjoy and swoon along with me :-)