TODAY! I challange you to not use your ipod!
I take the bus every day at least twice and everyone except the elderly and moms has an ipod and it's starting to freak me out. Was it always like this? Were people carrying around diskmans and walkmans to this degree? Probably not, just because those devices were bigger and if you were a man, unless you had a backpack, you couldn't carry around much of a CD collection (or cassette tape collection) because men didn't carry around man-bags and man-purses until recently (which is really catching on. I dont' know what I will think if my boyfriend asks me to hold his purse one day....)
I think it's because people are afraid of eachother on the bus. I like watching how people will sit down on the bus. They will sit as far away from eachother as possible, evenly spaced out and then only when there is no other option will they sit next to eachother. And now they've found a way to not talk or listen to eachother. It's really creepy when you look around at people on a bus and they all have cords hanging out of their ears. So I challenge you to not plug in. To have a conversation with a stranger or if not, look out the window, listen to other people's conversations, think deeply to yourself (the bus is actually a good place for thinking) because I don't know about you but I'm tired of everything on my ipod. I still consider them my favourite bands, but I've lately had to listen to them out of habit, not because i felt like it.
"No one wants to admit we're addicted to music. That's just not possible. No one's addicted to music and televistion and radio. We just need more of it, more channels, a larger screen, more volume. We can't bear to be without it, but no, nobody's addicted. We could turn it off anytime we wanted."
-Chuck Palahniuk "Lullaby"
I take the bus every day at least twice and everyone except the elderly and moms has an ipod and it's starting to freak me out. Was it always like this? Were people carrying around diskmans and walkmans to this degree? Probably not, just because those devices were bigger and if you were a man, unless you had a backpack, you couldn't carry around much of a CD collection (or cassette tape collection) because men didn't carry around man-bags and man-purses until recently (which is really catching on. I dont' know what I will think if my boyfriend asks me to hold his purse one day....)
I think it's because people are afraid of eachother on the bus. I like watching how people will sit down on the bus. They will sit as far away from eachother as possible, evenly spaced out and then only when there is no other option will they sit next to eachother. And now they've found a way to not talk or listen to eachother. It's really creepy when you look around at people on a bus and they all have cords hanging out of their ears. So I challenge you to not plug in. To have a conversation with a stranger or if not, look out the window, listen to other people's conversations, think deeply to yourself (the bus is actually a good place for thinking) because I don't know about you but I'm tired of everything on my ipod. I still consider them my favourite bands, but I've lately had to listen to them out of habit, not because i felt like it.
"No one wants to admit we're addicted to music. That's just not possible. No one's addicted to music and televistion and radio. We just need more of it, more channels, a larger screen, more volume. We can't bear to be without it, but no, nobody's addicted. We could turn it off anytime we wanted."
-Chuck Palahniuk "Lullaby"
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actually having more trouble unplugging from laptop and pocket rocket gphone.
don't ride the bus, or commute any distance, so i tend to listen to a 3 minutes of new radio and then i'm done