Another sad story; But this time I grew completely!

It was as a youngster playing a board game with two friends in my friend’s kitchen. It was one of the games such as Taboo, Or Pictionary I forget.

But in playing it came to light that I didn’t know what a CD player was… and this was like 1991.

The game I recall was guessing and I proved I knew what a record player was, and cassette player, stereo etc.

I remember my smart friend just looked at me after I ran out of time. I was so embarrassed.

It’s always the parents fault maybe. Music taste embarrasses a lot of people. And I remember being too embarraessed to ask for a stereo growing up. (Didn’t get one until college).

Nowadays though I’m music-Ey. I don’t give an eff! I play it for my folks… we have like 5 alexas and I play specific stuff all the time.

And thank goodness I now appreciate the writing and poetry much more too. anyway I am happy in this realm. And look forward to showing the youth in my family some cool stuff. That is all.

Yeah, that’s embarrassing. But it’s ok. And look at you now! Now you’re on top of technology. Did your friends say anything about you not knowing?

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It was that type of thing where everyone was embarrassed!!!

@LilyoftheValley I’ll try to read your other thread entirely and add my reaction.

You’re safe now.

But I’ll add my two cents to help you maybe start seeing things even an iota differently and to think newer thoughts.

Your issue with the opposite sex trumps mine.

I was simply a high school boy and ‘one of the pretty girls’ on the track and field team gave me eyes. We were from seperated single sex schools.

I wasted approx 3 years thinking on her. But it was just one impulse from her. The real weakness is in me, and can be explained by the slow schizophrenia development. They use the word insidious and the prognosis for those having that history is actually worse.

And in defense of me: a lot can go down when you’re a man who perhaps maybe likes intrigue more than information.

But I am making tons of strides now that I can see that in me.

Back to the thread theme though:

You may really like Matt Berringer, the lead singer of the band: The National.
He quit his corporate role in advertising for MasterCard.

His songwriting is masculine but he’s married and his wife Karen helps him write songs.

“I’m afraid of everyone” was written after they had a baby. And “I Should Live in Salt” was written as an olive branch to his younger brother. The latter gives me goosebumps and as such I skip it of late.

They’re my favorite band. Admittedly people need context in order to find new music. For me, it was “the smart friend” and his Georgetown crew who played it for me and they had a time singing along and being funny. That was 2007 though and I’ve legitimitely made them my own. And they’vre stood the test of time.

I got descriptive here for the context aspect. I’m just excited to share them!!!

As they say in A.A. , “You got to give it away; in order to keep it.”

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