In response to a friend's post about whether we're ashamed of the music we used to listen to, I wrote probably more than I should have, but this was the last and most relevant bit:
I think the real power in music is that it lets us time travel, in a sense, with the right song forever able to carry us back to a particular moment in our lives, even if it wasn't playing then, necessarily, but just captured the feel of it so completely the first time we heard it years later that it melded itself forever to the memory.
So to give it up, even were that possible, is to give up that ability. Just not worth it for the sake of saving face, to me.
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