I think it's fair to say that the metaphor "life is a roller-coaster" is WAY too real. There's gonna be days when you feel like you run the world, and there's gonna be days when you feel like the world is running you. Everyone deals with the highs and lows of life differently, but I've found my holy grail of remedies from music. More specifically - playlists.
When my day feels like it'll never end, or when I find myself not wanting it to end, there's always a song for those feelings. I'll put together playlists of songs that I can relate to, not even realizing how therapeutic it is. I suppose that it supports the idea that humans crave company, whether it's company for the miserable or company for the merry. To hear someone else put into words exactly what you want to say, but can't, is such an amazing feeling. The loneliness drifts away. On better days, I feel like someone out there is happy that I'm happy - even if it is some artist who doesn't know that I exist.
The titles of my playlists are usually as simple as "Breathe", or even just a period. No matter when I need it, I can always come across that word or punctuation mark and know exactly what or who I was thinking about at the moment I made it. It's a crazy thing to me - how someone's words can take me back to times that seemed like they would last forever, but of course, did not.
Playlists seem to be one of the very few things that never fail to brighten my mood. I wouldn't give up those hours I've spent browsing through Spotify and pressing "Add to Playlist" for anything.
To my eternal elixir - thanks for never, ever, letting me down.