I’m afraid someone would come by and clang them together like cartoon symbols and then my whole body would lock up and start vibrating at the frequency of sound
I am at an age when my hearing has virtual lids.
Saving up for hearing aids.
But for now I am serene & untroubled by the white noise that surrounds me.
I drift......
One of my high school teachers said we all had internal cerebral corks levered at ear-level & attached to our shoulder tendons, so that when we raised our hands we became incapable of hearing anything until we lowered our hands again. He would take a question & answer only when all hands went down.
I'm at about 80% hearing loss now
I have bone conduction hearing aids that are built into the frames of my glasses.
Unless you are deaf, you simply cannot understand the sheer bliss of turning off your hearing.
Noisy queue in the supermarket
becomes
Calm, quiet, tranquil queue in the supermarket.
Escaping the drip, drip, drip torture of the incessant, meaningless 'likes' larding conversations on the long, long, excruciatingly long transit commutes...
Some stranger taps me on the arm, point to my earbuds & asks, "Watcha listnin' to?"
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Saving up for hearing aids.
But for now I am serene & untroubled by the white noise that surrounds me.
I drift......
That would be great .
/And then after he did this he said "words here" and then he.../ For an hour.
I have bone conduction hearing aids that are built into the frames of my glasses.
Unless you are deaf, you simply cannot understand the sheer bliss of turning off your hearing.
Noisy queue in the supermarket
becomes
Calm, quiet, tranquil queue in the supermarket.
Some stranger taps me on the arm, point to my earbuds & asks, "Watcha listnin' to?"
"Nothing...."