Sounds Like Love

by Ashley Poston

And I don’t care about making it big—I just want to make it. I’d rather be ten people’s favorite thing than a hundred people’s tenth-favorite thing.”

There were some songs you made special—songs for first dances, songs for funerals, songs for heartbreak and forgetting. And then there were the songs that made you.

In that moment, I realized that music could be everything. It was the feeling of existing, dancing, reveling in the pouring rain. It was magic.

If you spend your entire life comparing everything to the best thing you ever made, then you aren’t gonna find joy in any of it. You’ll just be unhappy that they aren’t like the original thing, you know?”

“Follow your joy,”