I have, many times, talked about how I am a little obsessed with the passage of time and all things related to the passage of time. I love calendars, remember random dates and anniversaries and keep greeting cards so I can look back at where I was a specific times in my life and compare it to where I am now.
A semi-tangible way of doing this was saving and cataloging all of my playlists from the last 3.5 years. These were either my creations to mark how I was feeling on a certain day or to make some task, usually sweating, less awful. Sprinkled in with these were the playlists that friends, one in particular, had made for me on birthdays, holidays or just hard days that called for a little help. They helped me sleep on planes that would be met with grieving relatives and saved me from a completely melancholy music collection.
Two days ago, my Itunes decided to purge itself of said mixes. Luckily, the music remains intact but arranged only by artist and album. I know that I can (and will) research and rebuild some of these mixes, but some are gone forever. In thinking through this reality, I have decided that it will pose a great challenge to repopulate with things are more current and move on from more of the sad lists that had become a staple. If you are a music sharing person, consider this your call to arms...
