Am I a music junkie??

Curious about whether you've got a music addiction? Maybe I can help you.

Let me be clear that, in my opinion, there's a huge difference between being a music junkie and a music lover. Almost everyone is a music lover. In fact, I can't recall meeting more than a handful of music-haters in my entire life. It's like pizza-haters. There are not many.

With that said, it's sorta hard to define the term Music Junkie. The signs of true addiction aren't always obvious, and each patient is different, so it's hard to fit music junkies into easy-to-define categories. Like other junkies, there are lots of little things and oddities unique to the each individual.

Perhaps the best I can help you search your answer is to let you know some of my symptoms that alerted me to my addiction.

1. Telling Time with Music
I tend to relate a lot of aspects of my life to music. Things like time.
It took an album to get from The Illinois Institute of Art back home. Three more songs to get from my home to the Gym. Eight more albums to drive from New Orleans, Louisiana to Chicago, Illinois. 

2. A Battle with Silence
I'm not a big fan of silence generally
No, really. For better or worse, my consciousness seems to dig multiple things at once. Although I often add TV, movies, documentaries, and other forms of entertainment into my work mix, nothing makes its way into the mix like music.
You don't think I'm writing this without music, do you? Not if you're one of the classmates who have read any of my other posts, you don't. I'm currently writing this post out this dribble to the sound Drake’s “If you’re reading this its too late”.

3. Music Rules
I've got more than one strict rule about music.
But here's the one that makes most people crazy: I never listen to the same song twice in one day. Crazy huh? I understand it's not normal.
You're probably like, "Wow, I listen to the same thing over and over."
In my opinion, there's just too much amazing, awesome music out there to listen to the same thing over and over. I have no problem if you do it, but to me, it's the difference between being a music fan and a music junkie. Because ultimately, once you wear out a song, it's hard to ever get it back.

4. Associating People with music
If you're a friend of mine, or we've spent time partying together, chances are I relate you to music somehow. If you're a relative, lifelong friend, or former female comrade, then I probably associate you with at least one specific album or artist, probably more.
If you've been one of my deepest musical influences, or my deepest loves, you are more than likely multiple artists and albums to me. (For instance, J Holiday “suffocate” this song represents the love I had for my Ex-wife) 
I do the same thing with places. Cities. Events.
if it happened in my reality, chances are I've got a soundtrack for it in my mind.

5. Promoting Music Without the Potential for a Sale
I been pimping my music to people for free for as long as I can remember, and I'll be doing it until I die.  In my younger days, I forced my friends to listen to new shit all the time. It used to make them nuts. These days, even though I don't have an outlet to sell you a specific album, I'm posting more music than ever on my social sites. Thanks to sound cloud!!!
Because I'm not just an addict, I’m an Innovator.
And I'm always looking for more junkies to join me.