The Second Best Feeling in the World
My college roommate, Mark, told me, “The second best feeling in the world is finishing a song.”
I wrote what I consider to be my first (keepable) song in the summer of 1999, a recent high school graduate not only had a diploma, but turned songwriter.
After seventeen years of partaking in songwriting, completing a tune still feels like the second best feeling in the world.
The process of finishing a song (or poem) is my addiction; the ultimate antibiotic, an endorphin spike that I haven’t built a resistance to experiencing.
Yet the half-life of euphoria remains the same:
Finish a poem: 24 hours
Finish a song: 72 hours
The half-life of euphoria after completing a new work.— mikevial (@mikevial) January 3, 2017
If I seem on top of the world for a few days, I’ve probably finished a piece of writing that feels worth sharing. If I seem down in the dumps, I’ve probably haven’t written anything worth sharing in a long time.
Songwriters and poets, may 2017 be another year you take up the chase.
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