What is "story of my life"

n. A rueful expression used to indicate that a previously described incident (often a mishap) is typical of what tends to happen to the speaker

"Story of My Life" is a 1990 song by Social Distortion, written by Mike Ness, which was released as a single and also appeared on their self-titled album as well as Live at the Roxy. The song describes a love interest he had as a teenager that he never really acted upon and years later he's looking back wistfully on how things have changed and how quickly his life (and the opportunity) has passed him by.

Although it failed to chart on all of the major charts, it is one of the band's biggest hits, and received heavy airplay.

Story of My Life is a novel published in 1988 by American author Jay McInerney.

Story of My Life is Pere Ubu's ninth studio album. Eric Drew Feldman left the band prior to recording, reducing Ubu to a quartet. Prior to touring on this album Tony Maimone left as well. According to a conversation between David Thomas and Frank Black included on the b-side of the "Kathleen" single, the album's working title was Johnny Rivers Live At The Whiskey A Go Go.

Though out of print for many years, a reissue was announced in early 2007.

"Come Home" features prominently in a bar fight scene in Kalifornia (1993), starring Brad Pitt as a psychopathic serial killer.

"Story of My Life" is the first promo single from Smash Mouth's 2006 album Summer Girl.

The "Story Of My Life" music video was filmed in an episode in Season 6 of the VH1 reality show The Surreal Life, featuring all the housemates from that season, like Florence Henderson, Alexis Arquette, Tawny Kitaen, C.C.DeVille and others.

The song has been used in promotion of Shrek the Third. This is third instance of a Smash Mouth song being used in some fashion for the Shrek film series. " All Star" and a cover of the Monkees song " I'm a Believer" were both used in the first Shrek film.

"Story of My Life" is a song recorded by English-Irish boy band One Direction. It was released on 6 November 2013 by Syco Music and Columbia Records as the second single from the group's third studio album, Midnight Memories (2013). Written by band members Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Harry Styles, Liam Payne and Louis Tomlinson, along with Julian Bunetta, Jamie Scott, and John Ryan, the lyrics speak of a tumultuous relationship leading to lament and heartbreak.

"Story of My Life" is the debut single by British singer Kristian Leontiou and written by Kristian Leontiou, Sarah Erasmus, Pete Wilkinson, from his album Some Day Soon. It charted at number 9 in the UK on 30 May 2004.