Simple Things.
I know it’s a pretty tired and clichéd adage, but maybe with my old age, I’ve begun to enjoy the simpler things in life: good food, a nice drink, old records, and the like.
Case in point: After a tough morning recently that included a flat tire on my bike, I stopped by RadioShack and picked up some cheap replacement noise-reducing earphones, like the ones I had lost a while back, which had forced me to use the crappy ones that came with my iPod. After tearing the package open and unplugging those white plastic weaklings, I had to marvel at how such a simple thing like that one purchase improved the quality of my day. No traffic noise. No overheard conversations. No straining and struggling to hear basslines. Compared to that morning’s start, I was elated as I walked into work.
I read once that 80% of shoppers in shopping malls are looking to purchase something that is nearly identical, if not largely similar, to something they already own. Upon reading it, part of me felt disappointingly sad and ashamed, but part of me felt encouraged; that I am not the only one in the world that thinks that an upgrade, even a simple and relatively inexpensive one, is worthwhile.
-BrotherSpanky.
