Do you have a healthy relationship with music?
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| Poll: Do you have a healthy relationship with music? |
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| No, and I think it is bad |
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| No, but I think it is necessary |
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| No, but I'm improving |
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travelful
Gender: Male
Age: 29
Location: Knoxville, TN 
- #31
- Posted: 03/28/2019 01:02
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| Johnnyo wrote: | I'd say not. I'm the same (listen to music whenever I have the opportunity) and for me about constantly discovering something new, even if it's old, and music relaxes so I'd consider it a rather healthy pastime for me anyway.
Is it healthy for my bank balance though? Now that's another question. |
yeah music is pretty much my favorite thing (new or old), and it accompanies my other hobbies pretty nicely. I guess it's healthy, although sometimes it distracts me from things I should be doing instead...so many not...idk. lol
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- #32
- Posted: 03/28/2019 08:29
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I guess I listen to a relatively big amount of music every day. Probably about 5-10 albums every day, which is a lot considering I have a somewhat busy day job (even though I listen to music there whenever I have a chance). I enjoy most of it, since out of 10 albums, I listen to 2-3 with great attention and others more as a background music (even though I pay attention to it every now and then).
But I have to admit there is a little bit of compulsiveness, in a way that when I don't listen to it as much for a couple of days I start to feel a craving. I don't consider it a bad thing, since I never rejected any social interaction or some other activity because I wanted to listen to music. I know music will be waiting for me.
| Quote: | | I’m returning to my highest rated albums and giving them a chance to play a larger role in my life. There will always be opportunities to discover something new, but that discovery is fleeting and less meaningful if it only lasts as long as the few listens I usually give to new discoveries. |
This is great, I used to be in a period when I wanted to discover so much new music that I started enjoying it less. However, when I started dating my current gf, I started playing her some of my favourites more frequently and then I fell in love with them all over again. Now I think I've found the better balance between old and new, but I guess it could still be improved.
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- #33
- Posted: 03/28/2019 13:22
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| Norman Bates wrote: | No, but I'm improving
I have been obsessively listening to music for most of the last 30 years+. God knows I've had all the wrong reasons to do so - to pose, to get into someone's beds, to escape everything and every fucking one even my own flesh and blood in more ways than just one, to drink heavily, to pretend to know something about something I don't know about, to pathetically try and make friends, to fill up too-full-it-becomes-meaninglessly-empty fucking life, to make charts to have at least one thing sorted out and tidied up someplace even virtual, to younameit that's even more sad.
But as I am growing old, starting off anew with somebody-ies elses including another flesh and blood and doing my best to be a better human being as a whole, I have solid reason to believe that I am actually getting better and listening music for the right reasons : I really love it. The music and the listening to it and the discovering new stuff and the listening of stuff I wouldn't listen to but the son or the lady love it. I want to do it. |
Thanks for such an honest post. I'm pretty sure you're being (massively) overly hard on yourself. I have elements of this as well. Glad to hear your new beaux is making you a better man! 😄
Personally, I think my major problem is that I listen to too much music. That I'm driven to listen to album after album. I want to (& enjoy) having the knowledge of having listened to everything. I want to consume every great album ever made. And that's not just possible. It's a compulsion. And an unhealthy one. I'm fragile physically so I can feel the effect when I listen to too much music. Especially stuff I don't know. It drains me. Makes me tired. Harsh music especially. So I've been trying to "cut back." Trying to just listen to one new album per day. It's definitely a compulsion for me which isn't a good thing. Silence is needed to to give the body a chance to heal & rest. Plus the whole compulsion of more, more, more is never a good thing especially now that we can literally listen to more, more, more with streaming services. Better to have a great intimate relationship with less.
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