In pursuit of Quietude

Quietude? Ha! It was not even the last thing I could dream of, as a new mom. Baby crying was, yes, one constant sound of the day and the night. However, it wasn’t all. By quietude, I not only mean the stillness from noises but also the silence of mind and being. With multiple responsibilities of managing home, kids, family and freelancing along with other multitude of passionate and crazy goals – all from home, amidst two kids around, there was enough cacophony of restless, inter-crossing thoughts streaming across my head all the time. Goals and ideas were plenty;  however, a method to sort them all out to get them into action wasn’t feasible…..

…..until November 2017!

Let me call the period prior to this time as ‘The Pre-Bose QC35 II Era’. Or, let me simplify it further – Before Bose & After Bose!

What did a headphone mean to the Before Bose-Nandhini?

A headphone can connect to a phone, laptop or PC through a wire. Most often the head band becomes loose and I will have to keep fixing it onto my head every now and then, lest it will drop off. And not to mention, in a few minutes’ time, my ears would want to plead me to take them off. By the way, why am I even thinking of a headphone; my children are capable of pulling down the laptop along with me, the chair and the headphone, aren’t they?

Wait a minute, why a headphone now? What’s Bose QC35 II by the way?

Hmm….Okay!

Now, what does the After Bose-Nandhini has to say to her BB version?

Listen to me with all your ears!

Sometimes, the life of a woman who stays at home may feel like a grumpy old tale. Everyone around may take you for granted. You cook, you look after kids, well what big deal?! Sometimes, priorities may get, over your head that it becomes a game of choosing or losing significant things. Sometimes, there may come a self-doubt if it was all worth to have left your education and career behind to place your family as a priority. Yes, there are millions of women around the world who manage home and a few do it fantastically well, with no complaints. If you would believe, utilizing the advances in technology can prove a fair way to deal with the staying at home crunch. That’s where I am getting to – with the Bose thing!

Do you remember the good old days, when you used to play your ipod collections during commute hours in office shuttle? Do you remember your old playlist which you must have replayed at least a 500 times? Do you remember the pen drive exchanges for new collections with colleagues and bus mates? Didn’t music transport you to a distant land every day then? Didn’t it cool you off from just everything around? Why then has it taken not even a back seat now? Do you even realize how music deprived your soul is, post kids?

Well, you may ask how could one get into the magic of music when one minute there’s a cry for a car that went under the sofa and the next minute, there’s a cry for being pushed down by the big brother. Amidst the ever-existing dissonance, can a song playing through the speakers even make to one’s ears?

That is where, my dear BB, Bose QC35 headphones does the magic! It comes with Acoustic Noise Cancelling Technology, that is, it constantly measures the outside sounds and intelligently filters only the incoming music. Said that, in spite of what goes around the home, you will continue to immerse yourself into the rhythm. You may ask me, if it wouldn’t be careless on my part to enjoy music while if something unpleasant goes around and I remain without giving an ear to it. Again, get calm, Bose QC35 provides three levels of noise cancellation adjustment. That is how, last week, I could immediately attend to the little boy’s cry after jumping off the bed while at the same time I was cherishing Kishore Kumar’s hits. What I discovered then was that undisturbed music has an extraordinary calming effect on the mind. In a situation where the boy must have got a piece of my mind, I reacted calmly, telling (and not yelling) him to play carefully.

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