When I was younger, I always thought that it’d be cool if you could have a soundtrack to your life, just like in the movies. You’d get to walk around and listen to the beat of how you felt- or how you were supposed to feel at that moment. When the iPod was created, i was thrilled. I got one as a gift for my highschool graduation and for nearly a year and a half after that, my headphones never left my ears. I had finally gotten the soundtrack of my life. I didn’t know how i lived without it before and I didn’t think i’d be able to live without after. Until it broke. And that’s when I was forced to face a life without my iPod. But I made it through and now I think I have more of an appreciation for “silence.” I still think I need music, it does a lot for me day to day, but I don’t need to have earbuds stuck in my head for nearly 22 hours of each and every day.

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