timing is probably the most important thing in the entire universe when you really think about it - it's like when a certain record comes out and it defines that entire era of your life like the summer of 2001 when I was nine, in the car with my dad on a hot summer day and he stumbled upon "I'm Like A Bird" on one of the stations, and we turned it up, rolled the windows down, and we knew that that song would always be ours. and it's truly just so crucial to our existence, the timing of things - like when I met this beautiful person on the internet who soon after became my best friend and turned my whole life around. but the timing of it was perfect and had i not met her right on that day of that month of that year, i probably would not be remotely close to who i am today. and I already know that this summer is going to be associated with Daft Punk's 'Random Access Memories', with "Get Lucky" blaring loud on every stereo in the city, it will remind me of Eisley's album, "Currents", and the song "On My Balcony" by the band, Flunk. Six months from now when I look back on the summer of 2013, I will think of those songs and those records, I will think of how hard I was trying to stay afloat and become a better person, for nobody but myself, and how good of a job I was doing with the action of letting go of things that were toxic for me. I will think of blonde hair and dancing in the rain, hot sweaty shifts running around a crowded restaurant, being sad about how much time I still have left until I get to see my favourite person again, and I will think of boredom and sunburns and bad poems and love and hope and willingness to overcome fear. And music. So much music. This isn't really a poem but more of a very lengthy acknowledgment regarding the importance of timing, especially perfect timing, and how even bad timing is usually disguised as perfect timing in the end.