Everything Under The Tropical Sun » stress http://www.underthetropicsun.com Anything and everything under the sun that I could think of writing about. Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:01:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Classical music?! Shocking!!! http://www.underthetropicsun.com/2009/06/classical-music-shocking/ http://www.underthetropicsun.com/2009/06/classical-music-shocking/#comments Wed, 03 Jun 2009 10:16:29 +0000 jopie http://www.underthetropicsun.com/?p=1120 Breaking our normal routine, instead of waiting for my husband to pick me up at work, I went to his office and waited for him the other day. I went straight to his desk, moved his laptop aside and cleared a space up for my own laptop. I do this every time I go to his office first because I know he’ll take forever to finish his work. He usually works about an hour… an hour and a half overtime every day. He usually has a very stressful day at work. The day he starts relaxing… is the day that the accounting department is going to start stressing out. So consensus says, it’s better that he gets stressed rather than the accounting department. Poor guy.

He has always turned to music to balance himself out. When he needs to get his adrenaline running, he’d usually pump up the volume and rock out to his favorite tracks. He’s always been into rock music and maybe it’s derivatives like punk, alternative… not really into heavy metal but he likes some tracks from that genre. Sure, he’d venture out to Hip Hop music but he’d always come back home to rock.

Imagine my shock and a bit of awe when I heard Con te partido blasting from his laptop. Opera music. Then classical music. My goodness! What ever happened to my husband?! Why would he… my own rocker… listen to classical music?! I mean… sure… he can appreciate practically all types of music… he does not discriminate and he has a mind so open that he’s hardly judgemental. But in the 7 years I’ve known him, I’ve never seen him listen to classical. I couldn’t help myself and started acting silly… acting like I was a conductor (there’s this cool Brazilian conductor we’ve seen perform on TV… so I was mimicking him)… he mentioned something about Bugs Bunny and we laughed.

Without having to ask him, he explained himself. Whenever he listens to rock nowadays, his heart starts pumping really hard and with his stress levels at work, it’s not helping him. Classical music keeps him calm and alert all throughout the day.

Hmm… good explanation. I can believe it. But… SHOCKING!!!

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