i need a headphone detox

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onto today’s topic: i need a headphone detox 🎧️ 

remember when i was talking about how beat my headphones are?

yeah .. i ended up upgrading to the beautiful sony xm4s and i have been obsessed. the headphones are literally glued to my head whenever i leave my house. i even have an existential crisis when they die before my commute home.

it’s not really harming my physical health, or really even mentally; however, i feel like i’m filling up a lot of my idle time where i could be reflect quietly with music.

i can’t really reflect or think deeply when there’s virginia beach by drake blasting through my ears. i’m throwing a concert mentally instead. 🎤 

i don’t go anywhere without my headphones, and as a result of this, i am no longer comfortable with silence when i’m alone. i need to be listening to something, watching something, doing something. 

even if i’m reading a novel, i have music playing in the background because the silence feels wrong — it feels deafening.

i’ve only realized how bad this is for my focus recently. i’m probably not going to go on a full headphone detox, but i’m going to purposefully leave my headphones at home when i go on short walks or read. it will be a good step for me to integrate myself back to silence and the sounds of my surroundings. 👂️ 

it will also give me an opportunity to reflect more deeply without cluttering my mind and overloading my senses 24/7.

i looove music, but i have to start appreciating silence once again.

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