Playlist: Another Version of Me

Where do you truly belong? Where do you feel the most at home? Is that place a physical space or a person? Is the place you feel whole in your hometown? A place you go to every day? The city you live in? Somewhere you’ve been and yearn to return to? Does that place make you feel nostalgic for your childhood, but taste like a breath of fresh air? Take a deep breath and think about where you have been in your life and where you want to go. Is there anywhere you’d go back to that feels like it’s where you’re meant to be?

Some of these songs make me dwell on the ‘good old days,’ when I was so little that when I try to bring back the memory in my brain it's like being shown a VHS tape. Like running around on the beach for hours with my friends as a child, leaving with salty skin and freckled foreheads.   

When was the last time you reflected on how far you have come? In high school I used to sit in the dead street in my neighborhood at 2 AM and look up at the stars, reflecting on how far I had come and what I had done, listening to music. When I hear those songs I am transported back to that place, seemingly hopeless but also full of desire, my hands reaching for the stars. 

I want to listen to music that transports me through time, space, and around the world. Sometimes I want to get stuck between the real world and the one that listening to this music makes me feel, having a third-person view of reality. I want to watch myself make those important decisions or relive the moments I'll never forget. Maybe even bring me back to a time before everything got so complicated or busy. 

What version of me was I the last time I heard this song? It feels good to think about how far I have come, and everything that has happened since. The treat is the good memories, the happy ones that remind me what it feels like to live in the moment, and that behind each memory is a song. The memories are never silent, whether it’s laughing or crying or music. 

I want you to find those versions of yourself, because I don’t want to be the only one enjoying the feeling of where I am meant to be.