> In the early days of despair, I looked at Spotify and decided that everything sounded bad. All songs were boring, and I was sick of everything. What that real

> In the early days of despair, I looked at Spotify and decided that everything sounded bad. All songs were boring, and I was sick of everything. What that really meant was I was sick of myself. Wow, what a concise way to articulate an experience I've felt this year. Overall, this piece is dripping in a kind of self-flagellation specific to our year 2020.