shifts
Shift noun plural noun: shifts 1. a slight change in position, direction, or tendency. I was listening to the song "Goshen" by Beirut, wandering through the grocery store with the hope that my headphones would distract anyone from talking to me. While there, I received a text from a very dear friend. She and I were catching up with each other, discussing what was going on in our lives. In between the texts and the search for my favorite coffee creamer, I kept hitting repeat on a song. Do you ever get half way through a song and you’re like “oh shit, I really wanted to listen well to this” and though you restart it, you are never able to give it your full attention, which means you just keep playing it over and over? That was happening with this song, over and over, 3 times and then 5 times. And though I could not give the song my full attention, there was one line that kept sticking out. “You’re not the girl I used to know.” Without listening to the song in its ent