We have become very good at measuring attention — views, likes, comments, followers — but I am not sure those numbers tell us whether anything truly mattered. V2Melody has none of them. I do not even track visits. I make it because I care that it exists.
In a world obsessed with accumulation, Phineas Fletcher’s poem Against a Rich Man Despising Povertie reminds me daily that I am already rich — getting by on little, pouring what I have left into keeping V2Melody.com freely open to all, and finding deep contentment in a simple life that needs nothing more.
Like the gallant knight in Edgar Allan Poe’s “Eldorado,” who journeyed long through sunshine and shadow in search of a legendary city of gold only to grow old and weary, I too found my Eldorado not in a glittering prize at the end of the road, but in the quiet garden I built at V2Melody.com, where timeless poetry comes alive again through respectful, heartfelt music offered freely to all who seek it.
In refusing to define myself by what I own, and by needing and wanting remarkably little, I have found a deep and lasting happiness that our money-mad world rarely grants.