I have moderate (which is 55% to be exact) hearing loss. I was diagnosed with it several years ago. The first time I heard the sounds of water coming out of the faucet, I was more shocked than elated. I didn’t realize I was missing distinct water sounds, footsteps, even the crinkling sounds of a plastic bag. 

That’s kind of sad, isn’t it?

But what about a world that doesn’t hear the sounds of your pains, your hurts, or your desires to be heard and seen? 

What if you live in a world that is oblivious to all of it? 

Maybe oblivious is not the right word?

Maybe we just live in a world who’s not in tune with the sufferings and hurts of others. 

I’d like to blame it (yes, again!) on social media and smartphones, but we all know it’s not it, right? Social media and smartphones are just the instruments that brought out what was not seen before. 

It’s the humans. 

Social media made it easier for humans to humiliate others. Nowadays, it’s normal to see comments that make fun of other people, minimize someone else’s feelings, criticize other people’s appearance, and the list goes on. 

But it is not social media’s fault. It’s just exposing the people for who they truly are. 

In the same way that it can also give us a better image than who we really are. It gives humans superpowers to be whoever they want to be and to be carefree and careless in how they interact with others. 

But in the real world, are we really hearing and seeing? 

Are we aware of the silent sufferings, struggles, and pains of our family and others around us? Our pains, struggles, sufferings, and difficulties don’t need to be loud to be heard and seen. 

We live in a loud and competitive world, a world where silence and modesty are looked at as being weak. Unimportant.

There’s nothing wrong with living life to the fullest and achieving dreams.

But a deaf world is not what we need. 

Until next time,