It's funny how things that used to mean so much to me, now just don't seem as important.
I used to be obsessed with song play counts on iTunes. I had to let each song play out to get the play count, and the order in which my Top 25 Played songs ranked was about as important as studying for school and uni exams.
When I got my laptop and transferred all my music over from my old PC, I lost all play counts, and the ranking of my top played songs.
It was excruciating.
I felt like a whole part of my life had been deleted. And a pretty big chapter at that. I mean I was obsessed for a few years. I searched so many times for different fixes to this disappearing play count issue, but after a while it just didn't seem so important. It didn't seem worth the effort.
I stopped letting songs play the whole way out. I stopped worrying about the order of my most listened to songs. And I stopped constantly organising what I thought was a perfect iTunes.
I guess after a while, things that used to seem so incredibly important, lose their specialness. And, once enough time has passed, these obsessions can be looked back upon without pain for their loss, but rather, as fond memories of a closed chapter of a life.
I think I still miss my play counts a little bit: they really do remind me of a different time of my life. But I know that feeling will eventually fade, as I replace it with different, newer and seemingly much more important obsessions.
