Have you been thinking to buy a fancy headphones or have you bought one?
You are a type of person who changes to headphones mode once you enter the bus or a train or even a flight?
If you are one then this is for you brother!!
This is me Emerson an edm and headphones aficionado.. This headphones addiction all started back in 2010 when i started travelling to my college by public bus from gudiyattam to katpadi, a 40 min travel . All my friends were carrying mobiles and usually plugged in their headphones once entered the bus.
Even i thought it could be a time slayer then bought an i-pod together with a skull candy and got introduced to edm scene through a random friend. What’s better than edm+i-pod+skull candy..? Well four years of engineering got completed with no boring music and headphones.
Weeks back it happened for me to travel to katpadi by the same bus again but this time i got my headphones broken and i couldn’t carry it. I was worried about the stupid 40 mins travel without the i-pod.
I entered the bus and saw a pretty decent guy so chose to sit next to him. Once i sat.. he said hello i am ranjith with a big smile and asked my name.. i was confused as he smiled very enthusiastically as if he knows me. However i introduced myself and questioned him.. do you know me?
He said no!
The conversation goes by as i remember..
Ranjith: wer you are upto?
Me: Katpadi? And you!
Ranjith: katpadi and then Chennai... so what do you do?
Me : just completed engineering and trying up things on my passion.
Ranjith: that’s great man.. even i’m trying up things on ethical hacking research and preparing for upcoming competition.
Me: that’s good.
Ranjith: so you got a girl friend?
Me: nayii nyet! N you?
Ranjith : had one.
Me: no worries. Cheers bro.
Ranjith: what else thambi(lil bro)?
Me: so what you do other than your job and hacking thing? Party freak, tamil pulavar? Anything like that?
Ranjith : Nope man! I just spend my time meeting people. That’s it.. nothing much.
Me: how can that be a hobby bro.?
Ranjith: well i gotta question for you. Tell me how many persons knows you well personally?
Me : not much. But why?
Ranjith: How many lives you have got to live?
Me: Guess one life.!! Aint it?
Ranjith: well my hobby is to meet at least one new person a day and spare some time to know about him and let him know about me so that the next time we see each other we can share smiles.
Me : What’s the point?Ranjith : I’ve got one life to live.. I have to take care of my family too.. i have to work too hard to settle too.. i don’t have much money to travel across the world to see places. but i had to find a way to make my life better..and fortunately my country is blessed with 120+ crores of people and why not meet people and just speak with them and spread happiness with a smile on the face instead of sticking my face to a smartphone? Found this makes life better place. And then i reduced using mobiles when i travel and started speaking with my fellow passengers on the electric train i usually travel and surprisingly i got a lot of friends in that train..and when i am free.. i just go for a walk, wave a hi to a person, and speak with him for a while.
Me: sounds great.. btw how many have you met so far?
Ranjith: I don’t remember how many? But i can say when i travel ill make sure that i speak atleast with one person to save an extra smile for the next time i see him. I may or may not see him again! I wont even remember his name! I may even forget the face.. but that person will mostly recognise me and stare.. and once he stares i l understand that i’ve met him somewhere and i’d smile which makes me as well as the other person happy. What’s more better than spreading happiness?
Me: that’s really interesting and how it all happened? I mean this idea of meeting people.
Ranjith: on that day when i met a stranger who smiled at me asking for my name.. when the conversation went further he said “i have got one life and let me meet more people to make my life better”.
Me: so u r inspired by that person?
Ranjith: yes! And i am more than happy than i was before. And even you can spread happiness.. meet new people and know about them.. Instead of youtubing for interesting stuffs and facts meet people u’ll happen to come across a lot of interesting and inspiring people. I see these people as my Wikipedia.
Me: impressed thala.
Ranjith: you are already pretty good man.. because i see a lot of teen boys travelling with smartphones and headphones missing a lot of interesting happenings and people around them. I am happy for you because you didn’t plug your earphones yet to avoid the conversation which i see a lot of young people do.
Me : Cool bro! Gota leave cyoa! Great meeting you! Impressed! Before leaving Facebook profile name please..!
Ranjith: I don’t use facebook.. next time you happen to see me.. smile!! J J and see you too..
The stopping...!! End of conversation!!
Me: (mindvoice) nallavela...! i dint bring my headphones. Well who needs a headphone anymore while travelling? I was impressed to come across a hacker guy who has meeting new person everyday as his hobby.
When he can spread happiness y can't we too?
Even if we can't speak much? Why not a hi and a smile which can make a difference afterall we have got one life to live and this way obviously life gets better and interesting and nothing is wrong in knowing more people.
You don’t have to learn astrophysics to smile..
All you gotta do is..
Just forget to carry your headphones when you travel.. trust me.. try it once.. this is interesting..!
Who knows you might even end up finding a girl friend :P :P..!!
Even i thought it could be a time slayer then bought an i-pod together with a skull candy and got introduced to edm scene through a random friend. What’s better than edm+i-pod+skull candy..? Well four years of engineering got completed with no boring music and headphones.
Weeks back it happened for me to travel to katpadi by the same bus again but this time i got my headphones broken and i couldn’t carry it. I was worried about the stupid 40 mins travel without the i-pod.
I entered the bus and saw a pretty decent guy so chose to sit next to him. Once i sat.. he said hello i am ranjith with a big smile and asked my name.. i was confused as he smiled very enthusiastically as if he knows me. However i introduced myself and questioned him.. do you know me?
He said no!
The conversation goes by as i remember..
Ranjith: wer you are upto?
Me: Katpadi? And you!
Ranjith: katpadi and then Chennai... so what do you do?
Me : just completed engineering and trying up things on my passion.
Ranjith: that’s great man.. even i’m trying up things on ethical hacking research and preparing for upcoming competition.
Me: that’s good.
Ranjith: so you got a girl friend?
Me: nayii nyet! N you?
Ranjith : had one.
Me: no worries. Cheers bro.
Ranjith: what else thambi(lil bro)?
Me: so what you do other than your job and hacking thing? Party freak, tamil pulavar? Anything like that?
Ranjith : Nope man! I just spend my time meeting people. That’s it.. nothing much.
Me: how can that be a hobby bro.?
Ranjith: well i gotta question for you. Tell me how many persons knows you well personally?
Me : not much. But why?
Ranjith: How many lives you have got to live?
Me: Guess one life.!! Aint it?
Ranjith: well my hobby is to meet at least one new person a day and spare some time to know about him and let him know about me so that the next time we see each other we can share smiles.
Me : What’s the point?Ranjith : I’ve got one life to live.. I have to take care of my family too.. i have to work too hard to settle too.. i don’t have much money to travel across the world to see places. but i had to find a way to make my life better..and fortunately my country is blessed with 120+ crores of people and why not meet people and just speak with them and spread happiness with a smile on the face instead of sticking my face to a smartphone? Found this makes life better place. And then i reduced using mobiles when i travel and started speaking with my fellow passengers on the electric train i usually travel and surprisingly i got a lot of friends in that train..and when i am free.. i just go for a walk, wave a hi to a person, and speak with him for a while.
Me: sounds great.. btw how many have you met so far?
Ranjith: I don’t remember how many? But i can say when i travel ill make sure that i speak atleast with one person to save an extra smile for the next time i see him. I may or may not see him again! I wont even remember his name! I may even forget the face.. but that person will mostly recognise me and stare.. and once he stares i l understand that i’ve met him somewhere and i’d smile which makes me as well as the other person happy. What’s more better than spreading happiness?
Me: that’s really interesting and how it all happened? I mean this idea of meeting people.
Ranjith: on that day when i met a stranger who smiled at me asking for my name.. when the conversation went further he said “i have got one life and let me meet more people to make my life better”.
Me: so u r inspired by that person?
Ranjith: yes! And i am more than happy than i was before. And even you can spread happiness.. meet new people and know about them.. Instead of youtubing for interesting stuffs and facts meet people u’ll happen to come across a lot of interesting and inspiring people. I see these people as my Wikipedia.
Me: impressed thala.
Ranjith: you are already pretty good man.. because i see a lot of teen boys travelling with smartphones and headphones missing a lot of interesting happenings and people around them. I am happy for you because you didn’t plug your earphones yet to avoid the conversation which i see a lot of young people do.
Me : Cool bro! Gota leave cyoa! Great meeting you! Impressed! Before leaving Facebook profile name please..!
Ranjith: I don’t use facebook.. next time you happen to see me.. smile!! J J and see you too..
The stopping...!! End of conversation!!
Me: (mindvoice) nallavela...! i dint bring my headphones. Well who needs a headphone anymore while travelling? I was impressed to come across a hacker guy who has meeting new person everyday as his hobby.
When he can spread happiness y can't we too?
Even if we can't speak much? Why not a hi and a smile which can make a difference afterall we have got one life to live and this way obviously life gets better and interesting and nothing is wrong in knowing more people.
You don’t have to learn astrophysics to smile..
All you gotta do is..
Just forget to carry your headphones when you travel.. trust me.. try it once.. this is interesting..!
Who knows you might even end up finding a girl friend :P :P..!!
Do you need headphones anymore?
100% true and not a fiction.
100% true and not a fiction.
One love,
Emerson.
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