I have always been slow at taking a grasp of things or understanding it. I am the person who usually uses any product during the end of their product life cycle. To sum it up, if any innovative company wants to market their product with network hubs; I am the last one on their mind. I do not have a clear understanding for the reason of this habit as of now; but I believe the answer will come to me one day. Moreover it was probably more than one year ago; I finally downloaded Spotify on my Windows phone.
My brother had been playing some nice tunes on the speaker and he told me it was Spotify; so I decided to get one. Even though Microsoft has started to focus on its Windows phone device and it’s awesome now; one year ago, if you asked me, it was SHIT. I am a loyal customer of Microsoft not because of their products but because the profit the founder makes from the company goes for good causes; yes I am talking about Bill Gates and the amazing work he does through his foundation. The Spotify application for Windows phone was worse than the phone itself; back then. However, I stuck by it creating my own playlist and enjoying the music; whilst listening to the advertisement not being able to skip past five songs and auto shuffling.
I had no time to download songs on my cell phone and thought; being a student the money used to buy songs could be used for something else more productive. I am not going to shell out 99 Danish Kroners for Spotify premium, monthly, at the moment. There are other greater humanitarian causes that require donations and I don’t mind contributing. Nonetheless Spotify was grateful enough to let me enjoy good songs and playlists. The problem with the playlists is that while some songs are suited for my taste, some are not.
I was stuck; I could not skip the songs because I would have already used the skipping past only five songs. Thereby, I had to listen; no matter the songs. It was painful in the beginning and my focus would only be on when the next good song would play. After a while, I surrendered and was listening to everything; had to. Over the course of time, my taste of music had broadened and the songs that were boring before were interesting and good now. I began to like everything but was more open to whatever came up.
We; humans, at the moment have enough choices and we do not value things that are around us. We are impatient and just constantly moving onto something else. I know it is part of our evolution that we have to keep moving and experiencing new things but it has also made us impatient on an alarming scale. We are stressed out if we don’t get what we want or we hide and ignore if we get the things we don’t want. We are not even in the moment and trying to evaluate what we have because we have already made up our minds; it’s boring.
Spotify gave me the rules, taught me to be patient and appreciate what I have in the moment. Everything has a string of story attached to it but our impatience has made us unable to focus and observe the problems that matter the most. This not only affects the society and fosters manipulation to which we become victims; it also affects our relationship and career on a whole. Now, that you know the problem and the suggested solution; try to be open with whatever comes. Spotify can help you wire this habit into your brain; since listening music is something many of us do; most of the time. After some point you will be able to focus like the snake and be calm like the Buddha. Life will give you unexpected thing at times; however it is an opportunity for you to learn, no matter how hard it hits you.
Many of you will come up with excuses on not having Spotify or your reasons for not using it; but try your radio. If you are bold enough, listen to the genre of music you dislike the most. However don’t keep listening to only one song, I bet there are plenty of songs you dislike. This will definitely make you mad over the beginning period but will after some time; help you become better, happy, and appreciative. Next time, you hear a song that you don’t like; remember, you need to spend more time listening music on Spotify without premium or also your local radio station. If nothing just watch a TV channel that you consider boring. If it it boring; you are either ignoring it or only looking at one side of the story. You can do better!
You don’t have to thank me but you are welcome.
To Be Continued..