Music. If I gathered up all my possessions, and laid them out in front of me neatly, the object of most importance would be a music player; in whatever form that it might be in, CD player, record player, iPod, cassette player, etc. Something about music is so instrumental to my life, no pun intended, and it could not be replaced by anything else. A video game console or phone might bring you lots of joy and connection in the immediate moment, I don’t deny that, but something about music paints color to everyday life and romanticizes it in a way that the black and white supplement of engagement or joy that I get from entertainment does not provide. It's not entirely a bias either, as I wouldn’t consider myself an instrumentalist or musician. I do play an instrument and enjoy producing music but as a hobby, not as an aspiration or career. Even so, I couldn’t live without music because I feel it transcends experience as an art that other forms struggle to do in terms of fluidity, in a way that music can do flawlessly. A good album has the visual aspect, an album cover, weighted aspect, lyrical verses and storytelling, and an auditory aspect, the instruments and vocals, and most importantly, the artist’s aspect, where aside from the mostly required aspects stated previously, this one has the vision of the music’s creator branded into the piece. This creative flair is why music is and always will be timeless. A musician can leave aspects out for personal style, and models other aspects in a way that is unique to their vision yet still holds the essence of music within it. I’ve talked up music a lot, but all these reasons are why it's such an important part of my life. Music is self preserving, poetic, and fluctuating like life itself. If I didn’t have it then life would probably be pretty mundane, just views, smells, tastes, and sounds. Art would exist, but with nothing to supplement it. Art exhibits would be viewed in silence, movies would have no soundtracks, and both me and you, the reader, would not have a soundtrack to our lives. How bland is that? It would feel monotone, in a way. Since the question implies you would not have access to this, then it would not only prevent you from listening to music on a device, in a broad sense, but also from listening to it outside of personal life. Bands would play, but no sound could be heard. Street performers would passionately play notes and chords, and not a single penny would drop. Credits would roll in the cinema, to pure silence. Sounds could no longer be grouped in such a way that it creates a melody. Call this an exaggeration, but that seems like a dystopia. A world reduced to a very intricate sketch but nothing to finalize it, no pop. As for me, I’d like my life to have that pop in it. So, music would be the one thing I couldn’t live without.