True Left

@90sRetroFan I care about lyrics a lot too. I don’t really listen to instrumental music all that much, unless it’s really good or strikes a chord with me for whatever reason. But that might be partially because I have a weird relationship with music. I have maladaptive daydreaming, so I like to listen to music with lyrics that are relevant to whatever I’m thinking about or wanting to fantasize about at the time. It’s honestly a bad habit that I should probably shake off at some point, because there’s no use fantasizing about versions of myself that I’d like to be or places and events that I wish were real, when I could be spending all that extra time on making them closer to reality in the first place

Maladaptive daydreaming and music are so intertwined for me, that I feel like if I wasn’t a maladaptive daydreamer, I’d probably listen to music a lot less, or even stop entirely. Maybe that’s just my current brain telling myself that though, and I would just need to readjust if I were to give it up after all this time. It’s weird actually, because some of the earliest memories I have, are of me pacing around and fantasizing while music is playing. It’s something that I’ve done since I could walk, basically