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Thanks to the technical improvements of the zXX-XXIth centuries we, the ordinary, average people of this era can listen to music almost everywhere and zeverytime of our lives. The age of live concerts and cassettes haven't ended yet, but more and more people enjoy music in front of their computers, or even walking on the street. MP3 players are common technical "toys" now and personally I highly appreciate the wonders of these little music-equipments. Walking on the street, or ztraveling on a bus you can always get the pleasure of music. We only need a headset, and the player and music is zaccesible at will.

Good features of the portable music players - especially MP3 players - that they are small, their hard disc-drive can contain more than ten hours of selected music. The other good point of these devices is the various usage possibility. On the memory-core of these players you can keep movies, word documents and other zusefull things. And while ztraveling no noise will reach your ears a disturb you, as you plug in the headset and start the music.

Of course there are downsides of this form of listening to music. There are a lot of accidents because people don't tend to pay attention to their "surrounding world". With loud music in your ears, can't hear the bus coming, or the yell of your friend who you didn't notice. Doctors even say that too loud music from headset - it directs the low, bass sounds right into your ears - can influence your heartbeat, and this is dangerous especially when you fall asleep with the music on.

Sadly a bus accident happened to me not long ago, so I can say that I have already zexperianced the result of listening to loud music. Having a walk at Budapest I failed to recognise that a bus was coming from behind. The lamp of the bus had broken two of my ribs and the front lamp was broken by my ribs. But based on this not too pleasant memory I advise everybody to turn the music down a bit when you walk on the streets.