“Without a soul, my spirit’s sleeping somewhere cold
Until you find it there and lead it back home
Wake me up inside, Wake me up inside
Call my name and save me from the dark.”

Amy Lee said, “We have no spiritual affiliation with this music.” in April 2003.
But somehow, as I was lying in my bed in the dark listening to Evanescence after completing an assignment for my class titled “What is Zen Buddhism,” I began to correlate these lyrics with what I had learned.
One term is “Sunyata,” and from my lesson means
“Emptiness but not nothingness.”
“Instead, that all things are interdependent on other things. There is no independent reality or essence to anything because the things we imagine are only a series of happenings related to other things.“
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMC_8BjG3Cc)

Correlation doesn’t equal causation—the words of my statistics professor linger in my ear.
The chocolate chip banana bread I made this week did, however, bring me to life.