It's probably one of the greatest albums I've never actually listened to all the way through. It's a hard go when you have a song like transitions at the front.
Anxiety can be tricky. I play a lot of pickup basketball these days. I play too fast. You can see "the game speed up" for me, and I make bad decisions.
I think there's a lot of wisdom in life to the new things we do being scary, or just overly stimulating, or overly exciting, so we tend to speed up to try to get them over with. In reality, we should probably slow down, work the fundamentals, wait for the right shot, and take it. Worse comes to worse, we pass, reset and learn.
Making that real happen in real life is tough. But music really helps. I know it's been called the quickening art before, but for me, it helps take that thrum of excitement and feeling I usually have and slow it down; it seems to peg it to a rhythm and give it a melody that soars over that percolation in a way that is predictable, fun and true.
Here's to excitement, anxiety, and finding something new.
Song here -- Birth by El Ten Eleven.
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