There is a crossfade feature in music players like Spotify and Apple Music. This is where the final seconds of the finishing song are blended with the first seconds of the queued one; supposedly creating a smooth transition.
I was excited to try this feature when it first came out, but it quickly frustrated me. And it took me about a week to figure out why.
When I was young, a piano teacher helped me understand that music is largely the creation and resolution of tension. For example, a minor chord can feel uncomfortable to the listener, but all feels right again when the song returns home to the root major chord.
When the crossfade happens, we miss the resolution.
However, the song feels complete when we get to hear the ending the artist intended.
The same is also true for the art we make, the projects we lead, the stories we tell, and the music we play. They deserve resolutions, yet they’re so easily drowned out by the next idea off the rank; we barely finish one project before picking up the next.
We don’t need to hurry right away to the next thing. There is joy to be found in eliminating the crossfade.