Songs You Never Knew Were Yours

It is strange how someone can hear a song you never listened to together — and still think of you when it plays.

You were not there in that moment.

You did not press play.

You did not share the silence between the lyrics.

And yet, somehow, your memory lingers in the melody.

Life is made of this quiet unknowing.

Not knowing who replays your voice in their head.

Not knowing who smiles at the thought of you during an ordinary Tuesday afternoon.

Not knowing who attaches you to a sunset, a scent, a season, a song.

We doubt ourselves so easily. We question our worth in the absence of visible proof. We measure love by what is shown to us — forgetting that much of it exists in places we will never see.

If we could truly know how deeply we are loved — in the subtle ways, in the silent ways, in the almost invisible ways — we would never shrink ourselves again.

We would never question if we mattered.

Because somewhere, without your permission or awareness,

you are someone’s favorite memory inside a song.