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My roommates were gone yesterday so I did a whole day of working from home without using headphones. Meetings out loud, music out loud, youtube out loud. My ear drums felt so liberated!! Highly recommend
Mar 13, 2025
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it actually isn't that bad!
for a recent assignment i had to go out and draw people in public - just simple gesture drawings, nothing major. and kept forgetting to bring my earbuds at first. i'd get frustrated, yeah, but not enough to go back in and grab them. so i dealt with the silence, and it actually wasn't that bad at all? i mean, i was going to cafes a lot so that helped, but also libraries? places specifically meant to be quiet? and it was great, to the point where i purposefully left my earbuds at home to finish my assignment today.
consider: going places without your earbuds/headphones on purpose
Jun 9, 2025
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Nothing is better than a solo trip to a museum with a pair of noise cancelling headphones. Screaming baby?? shithead tourists?? you'll never even notice.
Everyone should spend a day with only art and music. It's good for the soul.
Nov 15, 2023
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I saw a quote somewhere that read βSilence is the language of God,β and a couple of days later my AirPods finally stopped working. I interpreted this as divine intervention, and began experimenting with quiet in various scenarios and settings.
Iβm typically the type of person who has some sort of music/podcast/video/voice in their ears at all times, and frankly I believe it was stunting my ability to think freely and withstand discomfort. I was beginning to feel that I was almost cheapening the media I consumed by multitasking, and I am hoping to renew my imagination and sense of mindfulness/presence by developing a better relationship to Quiet.
I am training myself to listen to the naturally occurring sounds of my own existence rather than drowning out the world all the time. So far so good.
Mar 16, 2025
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Terrible for my tmj but I do it anyways because it makes me feel like a hot teenage girl whoβs too cool for school
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