Do your friends ever send you songs? Or mixes? If they don’t, then you need at least one friend who does. Or at least one friend who makes playlists. Try sending a friend a song and see what happens. It is fun to have friends who share your passions. Or look at the world through similar prisms: the prism of songs, or music.

When you hear the right song, or a song that feels right, you exist a little more intensely for a few minutes. You refract different colors. You think: me. You connect with the song, and you are alive a little more because your friend made a similar connection. They heard the song, and they thought: you.

It is nice when somebody occasionally thinks, Ah, yes, you.

A friend of mine sent “The Record Player Song” to me bright and early this morning. Another friend of mine occasionally supplies me with a flash drive full of new music. Sometimes a friend will text a video or a link. Is there anything more important than music, other than people, shelter, healthcare, justice—the obvious?

I don’t know.

These moments make me here. My friend said, I knew it.

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