So that’s why…(The last post)

Today I read an article named “Deafening Asia” in “Reader’s Digest.” At the very beginning, I was curious about the title “Loud Asia” and then I read through it. It reveals the extent of Asia’s noise epidemic. To be frankly, I have not been aware of this problem or say I’ve never taken this phenomenon seriously before I read this article. The editor said when he moved to Asia 15 years ago, he was struck by the noisy environment we lived. (I don’t know if Chris felt that way as well.) However, then he thought maybe it’s just him felt that way because he didn’t hear any comments or complains from Asian. Few years later, he heard about few people in Hong Kong and Bangkok actually complained about the noise in public space, he filed this thought away.
It’s true that many young people turned their MP3 players very loud that I can hear the music clearly from two seats away. Many younger people are damaging their ears this way and I had been one of them before. Luckily, I don’t do this now. I remember that while I commuted to school, I always used my MP3 to listen to Studio classroom almost every morning when I was a high school student. I think I was the one as the article mentioned that turning the volume loud enough to cover the background sound so that I could hear the conversation in MP3 very well.
In this article, I found the answer why I haven’t noticed this phenomenon before. It said because we are losing our hearing little by little in this kind of noisy environment as we don’t think it’s bothersome. I was shocked that many of people in Taiwan may not be aware of this problem. After reading this article, I began to pay much attention to my surroundings. Surprisingly, I found from tiny clothes stores to public transport, the noise really makes me uncomfortable. One solution that can solve the problem is to make the public aware. Maybe we can improve it by demanding some stores turned down their music or we need to pay attention to how loud a sound lasts and limit our exposure in our daily life. In this way, we can improve noise pollution or the future generation may suffer it as well.