It has been a difficult year and a half since the world as we know it changed and hasn't stopped changing. A lot has gotten better since then, but there is still a lot of work to be done. This knowledge added onto the fact that I spent much of this past summer preparing for my first year of college in the middle of a pandemic and political unrest made my summer far from stress-free. Luckily, I had my favorite playlist - poetically named "music that makes my brain go brr brr" - on Spotify to give me some kind of distraction from the real world every once in a while. In no particular order, these five songs are the ones that gave me the most serotonin and can hopefully do the same for you.

All jokes aside, these songs helped me get through a very stressful time in my life. Hopefully, they can do the same for you if you're willing to give them a listen.