Is There a Correlation Between Spotify and Severe Depression From Introspection?

Woman Kneeling In Prayer (ca. 1860) by George Henry Boughton

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 Original public domain image from The Walters Art Museum

Right now,

I’m listening to a Spotify playlist

I haven’t heard in two years.

I used to listen to it every day, 

all the time.

 

And now?

 

It hurts to hear the very songs 

that had brought me comfort

immense. They’re still 

just as beautiful, 

but the pain of nostalgia 

they bring is overwhelming.

 

How can it be

I lost that girl of two years ago.

Nothing is the same.

I have learned so much,

experienced love,

and found new passions,

yet I feel my feet stuck in hardening cement. 

I’m a different girl, 

but I’m stuck in the environment of childhood.

 

Maybe, sometimes, change is good.

Or maybe it is mostly good.

But I know for certain,

change is always sad. 

Change is loss in many forms. 

Loss in naivety of adulthood being a magical place. 

Change is knowing girlhood is a dream.


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