Someday a teenager will think your music is ancient. Enjoy being the new thing while you are.
REFLECTION
WHAT THIS MEANS
Every generation’s music becomes somebody’s history, and whatever currently sounds like now will one day sound antique to a fourteen-year-old who was not born for it. No loss in that, it is just what time does to taste. Standing inside the current thing is temporary, and it is also a genuinely good place to be standing, mostly unnoticed while it lasts.
So spend this one properly. Learn the songs, go to the gig if you can afford it, let yourself love something that will embarrass you later. Nostalgia needs material and you are collecting it.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
What do you love now that will date you later?
MORE IN MEANING & PERSPECTIVE
- The same sky that guided sailors guides nobody if you never look up. Wisdom only works if you use it.
- Every culture told its own stories about the same stars. Making meaning might be the most human habit we have.
- Some birds that migrate thousands of miles weigh less than a phone. Don’t measure your future by how you look today.
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.