and the echo does not breach your ears with the confidence befitting a refracted noise, perhaps you might question the quality of the air in the interim of objects but that's okay this is just a shitpost nothing to do with your hearing however poor it may be
my headphones broke in october and i'd been too cheap/too lazy to buy new ones - until today when i popped into one of those phone repair shops today that have those big neon lights outside to let everyone know 'WE FIX PHONES!!!'
so i listened to music whilst on the go for the first time since october and it was... kinda overstimulating ?! i like how much more i notice in silence; even if that means feeling uncomfortable when the wind hurts my ears and having to endure incessant howl of my mental to-do list and also the cars honking. even visually i am able to notice more subtleties when my sense of sound isn't being overpowered by music. anyway, this post is an oldie but i got rethinking about it today
he is an old man but far from fragile he's taught me a lot of things like how to fix 60 yr old bikes and to identify owls by their feathers and hawks by their calls. cool dude