I am in shock. I am in denial. But
the evidence is there, in all its bare, blunt truthfulness.
My headphones have died.
I keep trying to plug it in,
twisting the green jack this way and that; but the sound remained distorted,
the voices kept sounding no more than faint echoes in the background, and the
music was still horrible.
It’s been hardly six months
since we first met. There it was, in a plastic Imation cover that took me half
an hour to open and cost the life of a scissor and chip off the kitchen knife.
It… we just connected the moment
I first slipped it over my head and cranked the volume up. The clarity of
sound… it was magical. And after being forced to use a pair of normal Nokia earphones
that kept tangling up and falling out of my ears every so often, this was just
simply beautiful.
The said Nokia headphones also
were not supported by my laptop for some reason or other. Because of that, the
only way I could use them was if I did not plug it fully in; just halfway.
Fully in would mean a jumble of sounds and disruption of voices, but halfway
in, the voices would be clear. But the cost; music still sounded strange, and
sound effects were dubious at best.
It was better than nothing till
my Imation headphones came along. Then, everything changed. My very way of
laptop usage was redefined, revamped, revitalized. Movies, much more watchable.
Games, much more survivable.
But alas, all good things come
to an end. And my headphones had to go.
