March 7th

A man in his 40s opens a cigar box of microcassette tapes he recorded as a teenager in 2002 and listens to the voice of his younger self—earnest, sleepy, sometimes ridiculous—wrestling with big ideas about the universe, dreams, success, and life. What begins as curiosity becomes a funny, tender conversation across twenty years, revealing a simple message that endured all along: you’re okay.