After alll this time in solitude I have suddenly realised something really potent about the business I am in.
Portable music is destroying our lives!
You see it's quite a thing to switch of the TV and Ipod for a while and just go into the world "naked".
I bined my ipod about 2 years ago because I was going deaf from trying to drown out the background noise. I think I made a wise decision. It has taken me all this time to re-aclimatise to what reality actually sounds like. Electronic noise had become a sort of tinitus that swamped me from the moment I woke to the moment I slept.
Suddenly though, it is as if the gunk that was filling my ears has been syringed out and I can hear again.
I have to say it is amazing.
I can hear music in the way I never did before. There is melody in the milkfloats; harmony in the hum drum and tunes in the tuna melt.
Maybe we should ban Ipods and Mp3 players altogther.
If we did we might have chance to catch our breath and actually listen instead of just absorb.
Music is not a disposable commodity like toilet paper, it is an etethereal and magical spell that makes life a little bit better, like chocolate.
Why don't we value it more?
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