I went on a walk this morning. It's not a bright morning here, quite gloomy actually. But it was a good kind of gloomy. I decided to take my clip+ with me. Lying next to my philips were HTFs. I don't know why but I picked up the HTFs to accompany me on the walk for the first time. The extra wire tucked inside my hoodie and my FiiO E11 left docked, I stepped out. I got out, on to the serene sidewalk, with my clip+ on party shuffle! I couldn't help but thinking that Spring has done a good job this time around. As, I was absorbing the lush greenery around me "Young the Giant" played 'Strings'. The percussions and the cymbals were coming out crisp and sharp. The vocalist seemed to be walking on the middle of the road dancing. I was merry.
As I turned on to the main road, I saw a young man holding his pants and shoes on the opposite side, probably trying in vain to remember the name of the girl he spent the night with. I heard a buzzer and I turned around kind of scared. Noone. It was not until I heard the second buzzer sound in my left ear accompanied by a thumping machine's sound did I realise it was Floyd, singing, "Welcome to the machine". The guitar bit was clear and the psychedelic piano made me sway. I looked on to the road and saw no cars. So I decided, to walk on the middle of the road. I was feeling a bit adventurous. An old pontiac, honked from a distance and I moved on to the sidewalk again.
I decided to take a alley as the song changed to, "The Fool on the Hill- Beatles". I felt like a Hermit listening to Paul McCartney's voice and thinking about all the fools at my work. The flute just overpowered all my other senses and I didn't realise I had started walking slower. Body present, mind absent I was now listening to "Blinding- Florence+the machine" with the bass reaching the lowest octaves.
I was not ready to walk back, yet. As if to have realised what I was thinking, my clip+ played "Creep by Scala and Kolackny". The powerful choirish voices did not tremble. My HTFs showed their skill, while I was getting depressed listening to it, right there on the sidewalk. I walked slower, involuntarily thinking about my problems, some created, some existing.
I was kind of irritated to have 'Bruce Springsteen' come on asking me to Rock. But a minute into the song as he promised me " better days" I was back to enjoying the gloomy weather again. I walked back home, as my ears started to sweat, to the sound of "Coldplay- Life in Technicolor" and U2.
I hope you take a walk. I hope you take your HTFs with you. I hope there is no one around to disturb you and you get lost in the sound and let your HTF sway you through many emotions, happy one instant, sad the other. I hope you experience a revelation like, I did.
-Thank you.
Curtains.
