I remember when I was younger my wife and I would take our family to a
town up in the mountains. It was a German village and they had craft
stores and cool little restaurants that were very custom for their
German village motif. It was near a river and so there was river
tubing near there that would go through the town and everybody would
wave as the tubers went underneath the bridge.
I remember there are shops there where when you went and they were
really relaxed and quiet but they had this background music.
Sometimes it was Indian flutes and chants. Sometimes it was spa-like
music that I had never really heard and it just sounded so soothing
and relaxing. And I thought how cool it must be to be able to work in
that environment all day long.
Fast forward to today and I do that more often than not. I play
relaxing music while I'm at work so that when I'm in my office I can
enjoy that as background music. I have some Indian flute music, but I
also have some spa music and a lot of smooth jazz. I've downloaded
some of those three or four hour-long music videos of relaxing tunes
from YouTube and put them on my player so that they come up in the
mix.
But is fascinating because I still seem to gravitate towards that more
and more as I get older.
Don't get me wrong, I still like a good rock 'n' roll song or some
hits from the 80s. But because I need to concentrate more I don't
turn the music up as loud as I used to. And because I have to listen
and talk more I don't turn the music up very loud anyways because I
don't have to turn it up and down and up and down to hear somebody
talking to me.
It's fascinating how my tastes change over time.
