I guess we all would remember the good old days of Michael
Jackson and “BAD” ….. those were the days I was still in school… a small little
tape recorder which had just one slot.. for an audio cassette…. And I used to
just love “blasting” music on that small little piece of hardware… I used to be
so damn happy that I had a music player at home… Tv was secondary… mostly
because DD1 and DD Metro was hardly any fun… The only problem was that I did
not have a lot of money to keep buying audio cassettes every now and then to
play the new, happening songs everytime they got released…. Friends used to be
the main source of new song downloads… that too, people who had stereos which
had dual cassette players, 1 for playing and the other for recording…. And then
once you get that from them, it was just such an awesome feeling that you are
actually playing the latest songs…. It used to be like a competition..
Neighbours against you…
Those were the good old days… I still remember my sister
having a walkman… yes one of those things we just do not see anymore nowadays..
but was a rage at that point in time… Get cassettes from your friends.. and
then use the walkman to record the songs for yourself… at the same time you
have to make sure that there are not a lot of sounds in the background such as
dogs barking, neighbours fighting etc…. it was such a difficult task… J
Slowly we moved on from that to Discmans, CD’s and burning
them on to the CD and then playing them… But computer speakers were never good
enough… one because they were never that loud, so competition could go out the
window…. Secondly, you could not move the desktop to where you wanted it to be…
It just felt so bad….
But the point I am trying to make is a bit different from
all this…. It so happened that today there was nothing good on TV, and I thought
.. why not just listen to music… and I sat on the balcony after putting on some
music that I would love to hear… some of the oldies…. I just felt so
nostalgic.. and at the same time I realised that this is one thing that we
hardly do nowadays…. Yes, we do listen to music.. but mostly on out ipods or
phones… we do not listen it out loud anymore… the only time that happens is
when someone has thrown a party and we have gone there to have a good time… I, myself,
have also become part of that same group… My music system is lying in one
corner of the room.. well dusted and alone… as well as unused.. for a very long
time…
Everything said and done.. I do not think anything can ever
take away the power of a good music system.. and just having some alone time
with the music you want to hear playing at the background… I miss those days…
But, now, I am more than determined to start bringing back to my life…. It just
felt so good somehow thinking about those days and re-living them all over
again… Some things of the past can never be overlooked.. Ever..
