To be a music listener

 
It just now came to me that being a music listener is kind of special.

People around me, without me noticing, don't actually listen to music much. They move around hearing music merely because it's being played - never having the urge to listen to something particular like a band or even a genre. "Anything is fine as long as it is not too loud".

Of course, from the latter paragraph, it's easy to notice what I consider myself to be.

I remember times at childhood when I would sit with huge old earphones covering my ears listening to the Lion King soundtrack. Hek, I could enjoy Listening to that today.

Later I would listen to the Phantom of the opera in the same way. I think it was in third grade that my mother would play music for me and my sisters on the car stereo on our way to school.

What's wierd is that I also can remember a period when this stopped.

I would only hear bits of pieces of music. Maybe It's because I got into computers and stopped doing the old things I would do. 

At some point in 14th grade I got into rock and was aspiring to get into rock music but just didn't have any other friends to do it with (silly to think how hard it was to get into music alone. In a way it still is.).

Today I feel more a listener than ever (maybe last year more actually) but still feel I have a never ending journey before me. I still haven't even found my way.