Turning to face what you’ve become, bury the ashes of someone…
I love the way it breaks the silence.
If you’ve never heard “Feeling a Moment” before, do yourself a favor and click play on that YouTube video down below, or go cue it up on your preferred streaming service. You’ll hear what I mean: a few seconds of something played backwards, and then a torrent of sound – an electric guitar strum and a wordless wail. For me, it is the sound of everything I was feeling at the start of my ninth-grade year: nerves, excitement, anticipation, self-belief and self-doubt in equal measure, and more than a little bit of fear.
Because what’s scarier than a totally new frontier? I’ve got the answer: being dropped into said new frontier in your early teens.
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