music march 13/31

Max Giesinger – butterfly effect

The song was released in 2025 (February 21st)

If my childhood had been different, who would I be now? If kindness had outweighed the quiet, if voices had softened instead of sharpened, if I had felt seen rather than learning to disappear, would I still be me? Maybe I wouldn’t have found solace in words. Maybe I wouldn’t have built a world inside my mind, a place where I was both safe and free.

If I hadn’t listened to that album, the one that cracked something open in me, would my heart beat to a different rhythm? Would another song have found me, whispered its secrets, shaped my thoughts? Music has always been more than background noise. It is the thread tying moments together, the map leading me to myself.

If that friend had stayed, if the goodbye had never happened, what kind of person would I be now? Some people slip away, and at the time, it feels like a wound that won’t close. But in the end, those absences shape us as much as the presences. Loss carves space for something new, something unknown. Without that fracture, would I have learned to stand taller, trust my own voice?

If I hadn’t started writing, if I had ignored that first whisper urging me to put words on paper, would I have ever truly understood myself? Writing isn’t just a choice. It is a necessity, a thread woven into my being. Without it, I might still be searching for the pieces of myself that only writing ever made whole.

That is the butterfly effect. Small moments, tiny choices, a song, a book, a lost friendship. One shift in the past and the present might be unrecognizable. The person I am, the person I have become, exists because of all of it. Because of every “if” that led me here.

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