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Being alone with your music

I’ve always enjoyed being alone. Being alone with my favorite tunes playing adds a new layer of ‘Being here NOW’.

I remember well the first time I heard ‘In my room’ by the Beach Boys. That wonderful angst of being young and not knowing my future overwhelmed me. Those emotions we’re trained to suppress burst forward, changing me forever.

From that moment forward music became a personal thing. A private wonderful world that I had control over. It was 1966, I was 13 years old.

When we’re young, very little is under our control. Now music could set us free. It was up there with the first time, 3 years later, when I drove my car alone the first time.  In preparation for the big moment, I installed my first car cassette player (by Norelco). Now I was truly free to be me.

Your stories would be much appreciated.

 

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mahgister
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Meditating and praying in a cavern in the forest  appear anti-social...

But working for big pharma "for the good of humanity" appear a very social enterprise at first sight...

Guess which one is  anti-social  really ?

Listening music alone is not anti-social, drinking beers  with a group of  tired grown men speaking insanities may be....

Am i anti-social ?

I am like the Christ i love men one by one between 4 eyes  and i hate groups of any kind...

 

«I socialize first and last with myself»-- Groucho Marx 🤓

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mahgister
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Not only did she never meet me under my blanket but i never dare to invite her either...

In the meantime i listened to this song with my earpod :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EQX70weW8o

I remember it vividly because it was the first song i listened in this way in my life  through earpod with a small battery radio...

I spare my money to buy a stereo system after that...( i was distributing newspapers doing so each day)

If we think, it was an audiophile experience ....

My first one and probably the best one...

Thank for the mate ... I offer you my best wishes for the kind soul you are...

@mahgister ,

"Under my blanket hidden with a small transistor radio with Connie Francis ..."

 

You had Connie Francis under your blanket, mon ami?!!

Felicitations and a cold mate to you!! 😄

 

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mahgister
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My experience reflect exactly yours...

Except i was 13 years old in 1964...

Under my blanket hidden with a small transistor radio with Connie Francis ...

It begin my music journey...

But thinking about it all started BEFORE, when i listened choral traditional songs each day on the radio when i was really young around 4-5-6 years old...

I begin serious music listening with classical choral music and Bach.... After thirteen...Not the Beatles and the Papas and the Mammas i enjoyed among few others pop singers in my teen years , but i listened them less as a sacred solitary experience as for Bach or choral music as a mere occasional pleasure ...I guess i was too serious even young ... 😊 Or i disliked being as others people were... It was so in music too... I prefered books to any sports save biking alone and walking ...

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