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Some Songs Don’t Play. They Remember For Us.
There are some songs you don’t listen to. You return to them.
A few seconds of an old melody can do something that years of conscious effort cannot.
It can take you back.
Not just to a particular year or a particular place, but to a version of yourself you had almost forgotten existed.
You may be sitting alone in your room, driving through traffic, walking with your headphones on, or simply scrolling through your phone when an old song suddenly begins to play.
And then…
Something changes.
You are no longer completely in the present.
For a few minutes, your mind quietly walks away from today and enters a place that exists only inside your memory.
A school corridor.
A college canteen.
An old friendship.
A person you once loved.
A family gathering.
A particular monsoon.
A journey.
A room in your childhood home.
A conversation you never knew would become a memory.
