And yet I always feel like I have just scraped the tip of the iceberg. Within the past 5 years, I have managed to discover bands and artists who have spoken to me in such distinctly personal ways that it sometimes feels like direct communication. There is so much with music, so much to talk about and to dive deeper in to. The slow movement from the music that your parents leave you towards entirely new directions that allow you to discover the eternally vast catalog of human creativity is something that I feel like defines the adolescence of most music fans.

Getting into music has been my defining experience over the last decade.

There is nothing more cathartic, more soul-stirring, or more fundamentally interesting than taking in a great album it just feels like the most intrinsic and natural form of human artistic heights. The personal experience of listening to music is probably my favorite feeling in the entire world.