Starting Over

Starting over costs everything—your habits, your routines, sometimes people who seemed permanent. You shed years of accumulated safety and doubt. The friends who stick around aren’t just good; they’re proof you got something right.

I made a mixtape for this. Not because music fixes anything, but because there’s a specific gravity you need when you’re caught between who you were and what’s next. Dream Koala sounds weightless, like nothing’s fixed in place. Forest Swords is all rust and pressure, the sound of something breaking. Tei Shi moves through space like someone who already decided.

Once you break the seal, there’s a momentum that carries you. The hard part isn’t the leap or the courage—those come cheap once you accept it’s happening. It’s the days before, when you’re still deciding. After that it’s physics. You’re already gone.