In my first ever piece of self-expository writing, a 2013 self-portrait in essay form, one of the pictures I painted was through discussing music and especially lyrics that stuck with me. I lead into that section with this:

"I love how music triggers memories — often bringing me back to a time that now seems simpler and yearned for — but in reality those times were no simpler than the present — maybe it just seems that way because I survived them — because they are safely in the past?"

https://medium.com/know-thyself-heal-thyself/self-portrait-in-essay-form-circa-12-2013-7bdac6f1510e