“I saw a woman fall from her bicycle in the middle of the street. ‘What happened?’ I asked as I helped her up-the one car nearby had hardly come close. She took her headphones off and said, ‘I was totally self-absorbed. Suddenly I realized there was a car in the road. I braked and fell.’ The driver was there now, too, window down; he looked bewildered. She assured me she was OK, and continued on.” This is what was stated in Krukowski’s writing. Self-absorbed is how I feel with my Airpods on while I listen to music on my IPhone. I think a lot of people, including myself could relate to the woman that fell from her bicycle.

Ever since I was young I have felt like this. Back way back when, my father used to have this device called a cd player, this big circular device where you place a cd inside and you can skip, go back, play and pause the music on the cd. On the cd player, you had to buy and change the batteries because that how tech used to be, now you just have to charge everything. When I listened to music on it, I wasn’t just feeling everything about the music, the beat, the tune, and the words. Nothing around me was the focus of my attention except the music I was listening to. I was always happy when I was able to use the cd player. I always enjoyed the music and always had fun when I listened to the music.

After a long time, I got my first IPod touch and IPod nano. This was amazing to me. How something so small can have so many songs on it and I could listen to them wherever I want, and whenever I want, on my own time. It honestly changed my life. It gave me more freedom to listen to more music and listen to any music that I wanted. That was the biggest change that I had ever encountered when it came to music in general and how I listened to it. I can’t wait to see the many different ways we can listen to music in the future, maybe no devices at all? That is a question to think about.

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