1992-2018
The first time I knew Mac Miller’s songs is back when I was in high school. Back then I have this friend who constantly shares his music gallery on his phone with me, and the first Mac Miller’s songs I could remember that I knew from him is ‘Best Day Ever’ and ‘Nikes on My Feet’, good ol’ teenage days. And after, I browse more of Mac’s songs and I (illegally) downloaded his album ‘Blue Side Park’. One of my favorite album from him. Years gone and I haven’t heard Mac’s songs until I listened to his latest single ‘Self Care’. The song was so powerful and I went straight saving that song to my playlist because of the emotion of the song, because I feel related to what he wrote, because maybe I get the message that Mac was trying to send. I feel related with Self Care in a particular way that Mac is trying to display that he is confident to overcome the obstacles that he’s going through.
His death makes me feel so…. uncomfortable. Being a person with my own personal issues, his death made me realize how fragile we are. The things he went through from drugs, substance addiction to his love life and how it ended made me think. His past relationship was described as ‘toxic’ by his ex, Ariana Grande. I don’t know much or have much experience to talk about this but being a person with some particular similarity, I thought maybe Mac just needed to feel loved and be in love. Maybe when he’s feeling down, he expressed by doing things that shouldn’t be done. And when the breakup comes, he just needed something to calm him down, just like how love can calm everyone. And for him that something is; drugs. Still, I don’t want to blame anyone because there’s nothing and no one to blame, just one big lesson that maybe we can take and make the most of it to make our lives at least better.
I have done some of those things to make myself calm. Many of them were things I’m not proud of. I needed those things because when the world can’t help you be calmer, when you need to ease all the growing pains in your chest, who can assist yourself if it’s not you? Later on I realized what I did were bad for me in every way but the urge to redo what I did back then still knocking me hard. At times it is hard for me to hold on to keep me from doing those bad things. It’s emotion after all; but we should be able overcome the obstacles we’re going through and try harder and harder no matter how hard life is hitting us. I’m not an optimist, but one thing I hope is real is that maybe, maybe what we really need is something or someone to hold us and keeping us from going too soon.












