I know many will disagree with me. I also know that what you affirm is whimsical and exaggerated. However, I get carried away by passion and gratitude, and drop in a mighty shout that: The best invention of the twentieth century is portable! It was the decade 80, and my older brother, Renan, received as a Christmas gift a Walkman. At first it caught my attention because it seemed an object too big to carry anywhere. However, Renan gave me a chance, and, almost inadvertently, I went for a walk in the street with this device. How big was my experience! How wonderful! He had discovered that music, the music I liked, I could be with me even in the most unexpected places, like the bus in a queue at the bank or in the middle of a crowd of people. Thrilled to the core, I concluded then: I buy a walkman. And before long, so I did.
Years passed and with them, I was becoming progressively more innovative portable players. In my hands have been a Discman, an iPod and an mp3. The latter is that, today, with me in my travels around the city and which, like a beautiful lady, accept my best treated and mimes. Since, in my opinion, my mp3 is the ideal prejean: gives everything without expecting anything in return (except a pile that sometimes it is even rechargeable).
But there are detractors of portable players. A great professor of literature specializing in the Catholic University who teaches Italian literature course, once told me that pushes walkman the person to autism. At that time I did not know that answer. But now, by way of a defense closed in favor of my favorite electro-gadget, I can say that the said teacher was wrong. The individual with autism is enclosed in a bubble which severely limits their ability to communicate. By contrast, the subject using, for example, an mp3, is in a constant dialogic exchange with the music you hear. As is obvious, and not sung, a sound piece is an expressive message, and what it generates in the listener (either a sensation of pleasure, displeasure or indifference) is a clear response to the event said. So, unlike the autistic, the user portable media player is in a constant communication experience with the music they consume.
However, in addition to what is said in the previous paragraph, let me say the main reason that drives this little apology. When our ears without a headset over the world is the one who decides for us what we hear and what not. However, thanks to portable players, we can choose, using our freedom, the sounds that will pay attention, and with those who rejoice or nag over time we deem necessary. This, then, please give us valuable portable player: a possibility more than exercising freedom.
I can only add, to almost blow my lungs, as follows: The best invention of the twentieth century is portable!
Meza Díaz
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