tiny coincidences
I go on long walks (almost) everyday because of a heart condition I found out about last year. On my walks, I generally listen to podcasts. These can be about technology, or comedy, or about a tv show I’ve watched, or politics, or social issues. But, there are days where my mind is racing too much to pay attention to podcasts.
On days like this, I usually walk to music. On a day like this where I can’t even decide what kind of music I feel like listening to, I’ll set my iPod* to shuffle all 12000 songs on there, and just fast-forward any song where I’m not feeling it. That’s what I did yesterday. About the third song it played was a Billy Joel track, “I Go To Extremes.”
I’ve gathered from several years of reading about pop culture on the Internet that Billy Joel is no longer good. So it seems my iPod* didn’t get the memo. Anyway, this isn’t a critique to say whether I agree with this assessment or not, just that my iPod* goes way back to a time when Billy Joel was good. Or at least, you wouldn’t be piled on for saying so.
In any case, I’m not interested in defending Billy Joel’s music, and I haven’t had time to give it a good listen to see if it holds up. The point is simply that sometimes life hands you weird, tiny coincidences and you just kind of have to go with it.
Case in point: just as I’m hearing the line
No, I don’t know why I go to extremes
Too high or too low, there aint no in betweens
I’m walking up a hill with this pub at the top on the other side of a cross-street.
It just seemed like synchronicity and I ought to go have a pint in that pub. Except I’m out on my walk, trying to get healthier. So I didn’t. (Not that can’t have a pint every once in awhile.).
*Actually just the music app on my phone.
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