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The Disappearing Act

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Hello my darlings👀 Click here for theme song Once upon a time during the course of the year, i lost my way somewhere. I do not know at which point I lost it, all I know is that when I finally got ahold of myself, i was roaming through a landscape of a mental desert. A place where I had no ideas, thoughts or any form of inspiration.  For the first time in my life, I had not just an intellectual  dry patch but also a writer’s dry spell.  I had no idea of what to write and most importantly I had no abstract thought to fuel my writing. If you were thinking these happened for just a few days, then you have no idea what I’m talking about. It was a four months journey of just  simply existing and nothing else. I unintentionally detached myself from the world in entirety but for what reason, I had no idea.  I didn’t even have music to give me solace, just to tell you how serious my state of existing inertia was. It was like I watched the entire world through a safe distance, in a glass house

The Subtle Gift Of A Theme Song.

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So in the spirit of taking baby steps, or rather creating a solid foundation for myself here, I decided to write from my comfort zone or more like writing about it. While off the top of my head writing from my comfort zone would have been to write about something sad, deep or rather disturbing for the common Man, I decided to go a bit off to what really creates the zone. Music. You could argue that music couldn't be a comfort zone, but I think otherwise. Technically speaking, a comfort zone is a level at which one functions with familiarity and ease. Now that we have established a definition from a very reliable dictionary, maybe you might agree that Music can be a comfort zone. For every phase of my life, a song is attached to it. For every experience, there is a song to drive it home. I can never over emphasize the importance of a playlist. And by playlist I don't just mean the one you have in your phone or laptop or whatever gadget you possess, I also