I’m going to talk to you one more time about FOMO—the fear of missing out. I talked to you a little bit about it last week. And for many years, I thought that my obsession with travel was just a pure sense of adventure. I wanted to see every corner of the world, taste every culture, and be everywhere at once.

But if I really want to be honest with myself, that is, I guess for a while it was somewhat of a low-grade, constant sort of anxiety that continued to whisper in my ear that I need to venture out more, I need to travel more.

I must share with you that lately—just lately, maybe the last year or so—I’ve been feeling this shift inside myself. That old, quiet anxiety that used to, I guess, dominate my travel need—the urgency to see everything and check out every box—is finally fading out. I’m losing my FOMO.

These days, my desire to travel comes from a place of pure curiosity. I want to go back to places that I really enjoyed, really loved, and lavish in that particular experience once again, rather than experiencing something new. I guess the lyrics from the song “Slow” of Leonard Cohen are finally sinking in:

“I’m slowing down the tune, I never liked it fast. You want to get there soon, I want to get it last.”

That is exactly where I am right now. I want to make the moment last. I want to go somewhere just for the sake of being in the moment, for the absolute luxury of doing nothing. Remember? Il dolce far niente. The sweetness of doing nothing.

Music is a beautiful parallel to this absolute sweetness of doing nothing. Think about how we consume music. Sure, there are times we purposely explore new sounds, looking for an artist’s brand-new album that we love, or standing at a concert and hearing a track we’ve never heard before.

But the bottom line is, we always return to the songs that we know. We play them over and over again. And sometimes, the most profound thing you can do is just sit there and listen, without any purpose, any agenda. You are just listening. Ah, the sweetness of just listening without a purpose.

So, I urge you that tonight, just listen to East to West. Just have it in the background, and I don’t care what you do. Just keep it around and listen when you hear that sound that sounds familiar, that sound that just draws you in.

So, stay with me for the next couple of hours. I got a great lineup just for you.