Tangled

Milan Barsopia

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Feb 23, 2017 · 2 min read

Today morning while going to the office I took out my headphones from the bag as I stepped out of my home. The headphones were like my career, tangled! I wanted to start my day with some Bollywood music, so as to kick start the day with positivity but my headphones had some different plans.

I started walking as I started untangling those wires. It reminded me of the different knots that we were taught in Pharmacology practicals. We used to tie intestinal tissues of mice in drug response measuring drums. It also activated the philosopher genes in me as I thought how the headphones represented life and the knots problems. It took me around 10–12 odd minutes to untangle the headphones. Finally I was happy I was able to solve problems of life. I also realised that I had reached office and I couldn’t listen to some good music and couldn’t start my day positively.

But after fee seconds I realised that I not only had untangled the headphones, I had solved a life problem. So I was delighted but little did I know was that my delight wasn’t going to last long.

This entire episode made me think that I needed AirPods, wireless headphones in which there was no possibility of tangling. I could listen to the music and avoid the various thoughts which would occupy my mind.

But I can not afford AirPods because I am poor. So possible solutions to the problem are…

1. I earn money, become rich so that I could afford to buy AirPods
2. I learn to quickly untangle the headphones
3. I spare some time for untangling the headphones before I leave home
4. I keep my headphones in a way that it wouldn’t tangle in the first place
5. Stop listening to music
6. Stop overthinking
7. Move to a distant place so that I would get more time to untangle the headphones first and then listen to some music
8. Develop the technology that would refrain headphones from technology
9. Design new phone which wouldn’t require headphones. It would send waves directly to my brain cutting the need of wire or headphones.
10. Leave my job and start my own startup
11. Erase the all the music from the world
12. Go to office only during Ganesh Visarjan
13. Learn to play Guitar and go to office like SRK in Jab Tak Hai Jaan. “Challa ki pabda phirein”
14. Buy a car. So I can listen to the songs on car’s music system
15. Start wearing choo-choo shoes