Nowadays, it's not uncommon to see crowds buzzing around the streets, shopping, working, generally going about their daily activities. Once apon a time, that used to be enough. Once upon time, we were satisfied to concentrate on our lives and to leave it at that.
Not any more.
Now, the milling, buzzing crowds remain the same. Mix that with the newfound inventions of the ipod, the mp3, mp4 or walkman and voila - you have the Y2K crowd. Suddenly, the new generation is not satisfied to simply get on with life on a daily basis, but must now add these confounding distractions in order to get through the tough 24 hours, seven days a week.
We've been told that we will be the deaf generation [along with being the pampered generation, the rich generation, the technological generation...] at the rate that we listen to all our music devices.
How can we help it though? In todays world of instant gratification and impatience, we cannot simply wait for things to happen, or wait for life to pass by as it happens anymore. While we obviously have no control over how fast our world spins on it's axis, the least we are able to do, is distract ourselves from daily life, and to pretend that life is not really as humdrum as it seems.
Whilst I was still in secondary school, I regularly forgot that I owned an ipod as life was about as crazily busy as you could want it to be. Not to mention, I was also getting picked up from school by a parent.
Sad to say, once I got into university and started taking the bus as my mode of transport, the reasons for regularly sticking two earbuds into my ears have rung true [pun not intended] and I have now become a follower of the trend.
Speak to me in another 5 years and you may find that I am unable to hear you. :P
Dear God, please give me patience to get through the day. And please give it to me now.
Mishy <3
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