Music Roulette 4 ~ The Latchkey Shuffle
Research shows that the level of personal enjoyment, not whether the music is happy or sad, is what matters for potential therapeutic benefits. This is an important distinction for me because music for me is all over the place. Symptom of my Gen-X-aphilia. If you’ve missed some of the earlier installments, you can catch them here, here, and here. I’m all about the self-healing and showing improvement of any depressive symptoms. Let’s see what we get this time around:
The Ex Files – The Jersey Devil
He texted me a song with no context. I've been divorced from him for thirteen years. Some men never stop fishing.
Deep Thoughts: What If I Made It Worse?
One time when we were living in Virginia, I bought a stranger a bus ticket. I don’t know what possessed me, and to this day I wonder if I actually helped that person? You’re supposed to wonder about the small things other people do for you that you can never pay back. But what if instead we wonder about the things we do for other people that we never hear about again?
Premonition – The Movie I Forgot to Remember
Watching movies with my mother is annoying. Watching a movie with her where there is a husband and kids in the plot is even more so. When she was still here, I made the mistake of watching the movie Premonition with her. I, unfortunately, did not remember enough of the plot from the time I had seen before to realize it was a landmine of issues. That is how I found myself in that situation. Oh, also, spoilers ahead if you haven’t watched the movie, so whatever.
Photographic Memory
There is a black & white photograph of me that has persisted in my memory for decades. Let me tell you about it.
