Enrike
A new copy of Songs of Ourselves: Volume 2 costs £11.75 GBP buying direct from Cambridge University Press website. My copy of Songs of Ourselves: Volume 2 cost me many tears, sleepless nights, frustrations and potentially depression. But for that price not only did I get the paperback, but also a great passion for poetry that took years to show itself through the thick foliage of me struggling on IGCSE literature course.
A YouTube Shorts video titled “Enjoy consuming me” was published to the platform on Jan 9, 2025, which was roughly the time when I randomly discovered it, previously seeing a few of the other short videos from that author. At that time, it did not mean much to me — I must have seen a hundred other YouTube Shorts videos that day. Yet, a few months later, a random thought came to me and I recalled the video. Why is it that we no longer value knowledge and simply want to fill our pastimes with passive scrolling, a consumption, whose end goal is to move on to the next piece of content, to the next time slot, nothing to be retained.
A music playlist titled “turn of the decade” hosted on the music streaming platform Spotify. It contains 38 rock songs, all released in late 60s or early 70s. I have listened to the whole playlist many times since and can sing along to every song and anticipate what song comes on next.