Playlists: Everyone has them. Everyone loves them.

You know those playlists that you create when you’re really going through something? They are so relevant to you. They can almost explain exactly what has happened to you. The music helps you through. It makes you cry.

You love this playlist, and you want everyone to know about it.

It comforts you, until eventually you are OK again. Not necessarily happy, but OK.

However, once you are in a better place, what once was your favorite playlist, the one that helped you, becomes entirely toxic to you. When you begin to listen to it again, it reminds you of the hurt. It rips open your wounds that were just beginning to heal. So you begin to not listen to it quite as much.

Whenever you have a bad night and need a good cry, this is what you resort to. Until you start to experience new things that break your heart. You find new songs to help you heal this pain.

You begin to forget about that playlist that you loved so much. That got you through.

Eventually, you don’t want anything to do with that playlist anymore.

You start to blame it on the fact that it was well over-played, but deep down, you know that it still breaks your heart. It brings back too much pain.

You start to clear the songs that you used to “share” with that special someone so you don’t have to hear them anymore. But this doesn’t help the fact that the other songs hurt you as well.

So, you muster up the courage to delete the piece of work that you created, that kind of became your dearest friend.

Well, you’re my playlist.