Got what we wanted...
Less is More: "But filling up iPods, hard drives, or jewel case racks full of new CDs before you’ve had time to fully enjoy and soak-in your current batch only robs you of the experience. Enjoy what you have now. Play your CDs or small batch of mp3s as often as you can. Repeat until they become a bookmark of now - this sliver of time in your life. Years from now, you’ll have a cache of vivid memories wrapped around every note, lyric, and album cover. " While I do not have 5000 cds like the writer of this piece, I do have too many to know them inside out. Yes, I used to have a tiny plastic case with 20 tapes recorded for me by my uncle. I had no money to buy albums, so I knew what I had by heart, every song, every lyric. These days I can't even remember titles of songs, or albums. I've been thinking of getting an iPod. Maybe I won't.
Isn't there an age thing to this as well? I remember a survey stating that music makes the biggest impression when people are in their teens; when not only the music out there, but a whole life gets discovered. I reckon it's much harder to get excited about something new when you have such a lot to compare it with already.
But maybe this is the biggest challenge in life: to keep an open mind in order not to get old and rigid before one's time. And to allow surprises to happen.