Stop Wearing Headphones While Travelling!

It's a crisis hiding in Plain-Sight.

I travel to&fro to my college and IELTS class daily by Bus. It has been an amazing experience but there's a slight observation I made which everyone tend to miss i.e. the headphone crisis. Literally everybody on the bus wear headphones and use their phone, like even small kids to old guys, the daily 10 hr IT job guys and even some illiterate folks. This has lead to many accidents.

As in one day, I was travelling to the IELTS class and I saw this guy who missed his stop by 5 stops and then the Ticket Collector fined him of 500 रर(Rupee) and there's this one more time where a woman(Plugged In) was blocking an old man in the pathway inside the bus and this guy didn't even say sorry, this is just one example there are plenty of stories with different experiences and really different outcomes, some of them even lead to fatalities. And It doesn't stop there, they even wear it while leaving the bus and don't pay attention to the vehicles driving on the road especially in India where driving is frankly a Mess!

They miss the worldly experiences and the very-sound of daily life. I understand you can use your headphones and phone for sometime, but not get addicted to it. Did you know you can have High Blood Pressure Just because of your emotional dilemmas?This can lead to a lot of consequences.*

Hearing complication and hear loss.

Infection in ear.

Air blockage.

Numbs the ear.

  

Negative Effects On the Brain.

The experts concluded: "The use of headphones with handheld devices may pose a safety risk to pedestrians, especially in environments with moving vehicles. Further research is needed to determine if and how headphone use compromises pedestrian safety."

Here is the bottom line: It’s not the devices that are harmful on their own, but the level we play them at and how long we wear them. Studies have shown that the average person has difficulty using earbuds and headphones at safe volumes and intervals, with many people turning them up over 80 decibels (the volume where sound begins to become damaging) for long periods of time, sometimes all day.

Finally, even at lower levels, try not to use your earphones for more than a few hours a day. Noise becomes damaging after about four hours at 80 decibels but becomes damaging much faster at higher levels.

To summarize, if you are going to use earbuds or headphones, reduce the volume and time you wear them and consider noise cancelling headphones for use in public places, or use them less.

*I am in no liability of the sources as they were taken from the internet and trusted institutes and organizations.For More Info Look up their research.

- Naraian

By The Way.

This is the first blog post in this website. So basically I am from Bangalore and you will slowly get to know me by my blogs, and I'm not the only author. So we aren't new to blogging just old actually, we were having a blog which we quit due to our studies overload and now we wanna entice you with this one. and yeah totally forgot this one, There will be one blog weekly and i'm sure you'l find them informative.See you Next Week! - Naraian,Creator.