What I learned from…iTunes
Every where we go there are learning experiences. Often called failure, it is possible to actually learn prior to entering any destructive phases.
This brings me to iTunes.
My journey started when I was gifted with an iPod by my wife, Lyn. To use this then cutting edge technology, I would download songs from iTunes at the fire sale price of $0.99 each. This meant I could program this small device with 1,600 favorite tunes and have nearly instant access to any of these tunes within seconds. It would be the sound track of my life.
This activity became a study in overkill. The iPod’s capacity far exceeded my actual favorite songs’ total of about 400. It was here where I decided to slow down the process. Every now and then, I’ll add a song, but I’m done. Remaining old songs don’t mean that much to me and nothing new is meeting the standard. I do find some gems in non-rock genres but not in large numbers.
Lesson learned: I accepted my life’s experiences palls compared to technology’s ability to catalog it. To get more results, I would need to lower my standards. I learned to accept things as they are presented to me and not push beyond some limits if to do so would dilute the original goal.