music is a love language

6/21/22

music is a spiritual experience for me. it’s connection, it’s sadness, it’s joy, it’s relatable; it’s a love language. my dad recently sent me a song and within the song lived the lyrics “i’ve been lonely all my life.” like wow. that hit me. mostly because that so poignantly describes my dad and he probably didn’t even realize that that was part of the song. moreover, I know others like him. knowing people even when they don’t know themselves is something my grandmother taught me- dad’s mother to dad’s daughter. 

people tell you who they are all the time and it’s our duty as daughters, friends, lovers, whatever the connection may be, to recognize our fathers, friends, lovers for the humans that they are.