I was trying to come up with some sort of list for this final post as a twenty-two year old. I thought I could write about 22 people who I’m thankful for this year. To be honest, though, I’ve been blessed with more than 22 great people, and I don’t want to leave anyone out. I could talk about my 22 favorite moments from the past year, but I don’t have pictures to go with them, which would mean a super long, super boring post. I thought maybe I could write down what my goals are for my next year, but that quickly turned into writing things like “do 50 push-ups in a row.” Yes, that’s really on my goals for the next year (and has been for the past several years).

Then, I decided I would do a quasi-sentimental post on some revelation I’ve had about life this year, but then I decided I’d rather just do the list thing (perhaps because I didn’t have any earth-shattering revelations). I hope that’s okay. (It better be.)

Here are 22 songs, movies, and books that I went nuts over and/or taught me something during my 22nd year of life.

1. “Restless,” Switchfoot
2. “ROAR,” Katy Perry
3. “Give Me Love,” Ed Sheeran
4. “10,000 Reasons,” Matt Redman
5. “Say Something,” A Great Big World
6. “I Won’t Back Down,” Tom Petty
7. “Explosions,” Ellie Goulding
8. About Time
9. Austenland
10. Strictly Ballroom
11. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
12. Star Trek: Into Darkness
13. Frozen
14. The Impossible
15. Wonder, R.J. Palacio
16. The Fault In Our Stars, John Green
17. Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson
18. On Writing, Stephen King
19. Surprised By Joy, C.S. Lewis
20. NOS4A2, Joe Hill (This book taught me that it’s okay to quit reading a book, even when you’re 500 pages in.)
21. Divergent, Veronica Roth
22. I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts, Nora Ephron

Here’s to 23!