Billie Joe Armstrong wrote "Time of Your Life (Good Riddance)" in 1993 about his girlfriend named Amanda who moved to Ecuador, with him naming the song "Good Riddance" to show his anger towards her. He did not show the song to his bandmates until the "Dookie" recording sessions later the same year. During the sessions, however, the song was determined to be too different from the rest of the songs on "Dookie", and producer Rob Cavallo was unsure of how to structure the recording.