Okay, I love every song on the album. I have definite favorites. But today while listening to "Crashed" for the millionth time, I realized why I love it so much.

At 18 years old I was angry at my parents for whatever reason teenagers are angry at their parents, and I was desperate to get out of my home town. So I joined the Marine Corps much to everyone's horror. I loved it. Okay, not all of it, but for the most part I loved it. I was very young and naive but somewhere along the way I got jaded, cold, and just plain selfish. I lived my life recklessly and didn't care who I hurt when I wanted something. I did some things that I'm not so proud of in my personal life. I always thought I was happy but the truth is I was incredibly alone although I was always surrounded by people. In my superficial daily life, all I cared about was appearances and what other people thought of me.

And then I was stopped dead in my tracks by a man who was unlike any man I'd ever known. At 24 years old, I finally fell in love. He was shocking to me - he made me stop my craziness and strip down to the real person I had forgotten I was. I had plans and love was not one of them, but I couldn't help but to be drawn into everything about him. I was not in control of my emotions for the first time in my life. I definitely crashed into Mark but luckily he caught me before my life completely turned into a nasty wreck. We've been married for six years this month and I couldn't be happier that I crashed into him.