I had forgotten…

I have no excuse. And it is almost embarrasing having to admit that in the last three or four years I have been unfaithful. Unfaithful to myself. To my beliefs. To my own passion.

I stopped listening to music.

Of course one never stops listening to music. Music is almost everywhere, you can’t but help listening to it, but it’s not your music, the one that fullfills you, inspires you, moves you and excites you.

At the same time, I have to say that having stopped listening to my old faithful bands, I’ve had the opportunity to explore other styles, other bands and singers, and I have found other things that I’m glad to say that now form part of my playlist (Ludovico, Ed Sheeran, Marina and the Diamonds, etc)

Oh, yes. The PLAYLIST.

It turns out that for the last 5 or 6 weeks I have been working from site (site being Heathrow Aiport). Brand new office, brand new people around me, brand new environment. And this triggered me rescuing my old Sony MP3 player and bringing my headphones to work. Let me tell you, it had been a long time since I put a pair of headphones on. Auch. Poor ears.

And it was all going very well, until I got tired of listening to the same 5 albums that I had in that MP3 player (fantastic albums, some of my most favourite ever, but you can get tired of listening to the same stuff day after day for weeks on end). So I asked Jon to put some music on my iPhone. At the end of the day, one of the selling points of iPhones is that they serve as music players and have lots of storage for many and many albums.

After many hours of syncing overnight, this morning I finally had a music-packed iPhone!

I am so excited. I’ve been listening to album after album all day, and I must say that I have been almost distracted here in the office, paying more attention to the music than to my actual work. But I couldn’t help being moved listening again and again to Alternative 4 by Anathema, Disintegration by The Cure or Jar of Flies by Alice in Chains.

And I still haven’t gone through more than 0.5% of all the music on the iPhone!

Happy days

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