Just Listen

by Sarah Dessen

music is a total constant. That’s why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in you or the world, that one song stays the same, just like that moment.

“It’s a placeholder. Something you use when you don’t want to say something else.”

I thought again how you could never really know what you were seeing with just a glance, in motion, passing by. Good or bad, right or wrong. There was always so much more.

It was a good thing, and yet I felt strangely disconnected.