Hearing is one our most valuable senses and as I could imagine, would be a tragedy to lose. Hearing is very essential to our everyday life. Hearing is responsible for half of the way humans verbaly communicate. Without hearing this would have to be changed and everyone would communicate by some other means such as sign language.
One of the main things I would miss if I ever went deaf is music. Everyday I listen to music either on the radio, my ipod, or my computer. It is something I enjoy doing so much that I would not want to live in a world without music. To not be able to hear soothing melodies or catchy rythms of my favorite bands and songs would be a great loss for me.
In some breakthrough cases instead of people loosing their hearing, doctors have even been able to allow the deaf to hear again through cochlear-implant surgery. When the audiologist turned on the cochlear-implant Richard Reed explains,
“I heard some loud beeps and boops;, then I heard her say, “Can you hear me?” I could indeed, but had something gone wrong? I’d expected it to sound weird, sure, but she sounded as if she were using, bubbles instead of words. Her voice was musical, like a toy piano, each syllable a tiny ping. My reply was loud, a gruff, high-pitched Popeye voice. The audiologist said there was nothing wrong” (Reed, 1-2).
This must be an amazing feeling to be granted the sense of hearing for the first time and listen to all the new sounds that we are exposed to in everyday life.
works cited
Reed, Richard. WHAT IT FEELS LIKE…TO REGAIN YOUR HEARING. 2007. 10 Oct. 2007
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