Getting Old?
Just one more Reserve Duty thought to unpack:
Well, more a story than a thought.
It goes like this…
Over the course of the month, we shared a guard-duty post with soldiers training to become officers. They were in their regular army service, mostly 19 years old or so. We’d stand guard with these young folk, three hours at a time.
One such time, I was talking with the young officer to be, while listening to music he had on his cell phone.
He was playing songs from bands like Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Aerosmith- songs I remember listening to when they were new.
I reminisced about the music and got excited remembering being a kid.
Then I asked him- “How’d you get into this music?”
He said something about his older brother, and then, “I love this music. The old stuff is so much better than what comes out now.”
Well oy. I haven’t gotten that yet. You know- that my generation has become that old generation whose music is listened to by younger kids looking for “classic rock.” I remember that stage- but from the other side.
I guess I’ll date myself even more by saying that I didn’t even know that people could use cell phones as little stereos. What I don’t understand is, his cell phone looked so small. How could he fit a CD in there?
Any good “Getting Old” stories? Make me feel not alone!
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April 26th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
Wow, now people are considering that music old? My best friends and I are mad 60’s/70’s music freaks, and upon telling a girl from my soccer team that we liked so called “classic rock”, she asks, “Do they even sing in that?” However, I firmly believe that “classic rock” is only a meaningless marketing term. The mark of good music, is that it never gets old, or “classic”.