I listened to Bach played on acoustic guitars recently. It is by no means pop. I find I know much less of current pop artists than I do a few pieces of classical music. I have listened less and less to music over the years, not by choice really. It just kind if happened.
I do feel more connected to 80s, 90s and 00s music, singing words I used to know from the times I listened to the radio. I can relate to TV teenagers who would be fascinated with the guy who brooded and played the guitar for the band. I realize that there are much more interesting things to talk about with other people than the guitar-playing type.
I'm not so sure why, and how come, but I have started to become cynical about some things I used to prefer as a teenager. To be fair, they were passing fancies. Before the cellular phone selfie, I practiced using my digicam for taking selfies. I also used to enjoy just amassing random photos of the day. My digicam would sometimes have up to 500 photos for a single day, when I would document an event for my student organization. I managed my personal computer space very tightly because of that. My computer always had an empty desktop, with all the files sorted into cascades of folders, with designated categories, making sure everything was in place. My computer also had an impressive variety of songs, with whole albums, more or less downloaded from the then unchecked and unregulated sources. I streamed a few movies and some TV series, or otherwise copied files from other friends. These were a matter of course then.
These days, I have spent less time on the photographs I would take, insisting on my anonymity wherever I was. I now have a messier "Pseudo-desktop" folder, for the clutter of files I am working on in my computer (I still enjoy a clean desktop). I have transferred my old photos, music, movies and series files on external hard drives. I have felt no need to open most of them in the past 5 years. Somehow, because of the changes I have made, I feel judgmental towards other people who keep the old things in their life, or are amassing such things. I did enjoy all those things as a younger person. Simply, I no longer do.
I guess what I do want to change is my attitude of being judgmental. Just because they were things I used to enjoy but no longer do, it does not mean I have to thing less of those who currently do. Perhaps these things have their own season, and that I have only to sort, re-sort, keep some then discard some things.
I do feel more connected to 80s, 90s and 00s music, singing words I used to know from the times I listened to the radio. I can relate to TV teenagers who would be fascinated with the guy who brooded and played the guitar for the band. I realize that there are much more interesting things to talk about with other people than the guitar-playing type.
I'm not so sure why, and how come, but I have started to become cynical about some things I used to prefer as a teenager. To be fair, they were passing fancies. Before the cellular phone selfie, I practiced using my digicam for taking selfies. I also used to enjoy just amassing random photos of the day. My digicam would sometimes have up to 500 photos for a single day, when I would document an event for my student organization. I managed my personal computer space very tightly because of that. My computer always had an empty desktop, with all the files sorted into cascades of folders, with designated categories, making sure everything was in place. My computer also had an impressive variety of songs, with whole albums, more or less downloaded from the then unchecked and unregulated sources. I streamed a few movies and some TV series, or otherwise copied files from other friends. These were a matter of course then.
These days, I have spent less time on the photographs I would take, insisting on my anonymity wherever I was. I now have a messier "Pseudo-desktop" folder, for the clutter of files I am working on in my computer (I still enjoy a clean desktop). I have transferred my old photos, music, movies and series files on external hard drives. I have felt no need to open most of them in the past 5 years. Somehow, because of the changes I have made, I feel judgmental towards other people who keep the old things in their life, or are amassing such things. I did enjoy all those things as a younger person. Simply, I no longer do.
I guess what I do want to change is my attitude of being judgmental. Just because they were things I used to enjoy but no longer do, it does not mean I have to thing less of those who currently do. Perhaps these things have their own season, and that I have only to sort, re-sort, keep some then discard some things.
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