Times has Changed

Earlier today, while I was at home, it occurred to me that the Bluetooth speaker I had owned for some months now could have radio on it, so I picked it up and played around with it a bit, only to discover that it did have radio on it.

_{photo by Andrea De Santis}

So I turned it on, and for some reason, every radio station I went on had music playing on it, probably because it was around 2pm and not a lot of news gets on the radio by that time. But I kept on moving from one channel to another, hoping to at least find one channel where they may be giving news, but to my disappointment, I couldn't find any, and that was when it hit me.

If they had told me fifteen years ago that a time would come where I would be on the radio, desperately trying to find the news, I probably would have doubted it. Those many years ago, I used to own a little radio that I would mostly only turn on in the afternoon, because I knew that mornings and evenings were times when the news came on, and seeing how I wasn't interested in it, I would wait till noon.

And yet, here I am, some few years later, just casually ignoring the one thing I had so much adorned those many years ago and yearning for the same thing I had also hated those years ago. It is moments like this that unintentionally just show us how much we've grown.

And I love getting reminded about it, because sometimes it makes me take a pause from reality and just take a moment to reminisce about the good old days, the days I probably never thought I would outgrow.