It is your ear that keeps your balance.
I have to admit that last Friday’s topic is probably the highlight of my journal about last week. I am not totally deaf but I find it hard to hear what people say most of the time since third grade. I don’t know what happened then, I don’t know how it started, all I remember was the time when I started to struggle hearing voices and noise. And believe me, it’s embarrassing sometimes not to hear what the person I’m talking to is saying. I’ve been scolded too, many times, for not hearing something clearly. And do you know that feeling when you’re talking to the person who intimidates you the most and you can’t hear clearly what that person was saying?
The truth is, it was last Friday' discussion that made me realized that it is our ears that keep our balance. It gives direction. And at some point I came to thinking that there was this one time when we were playing “open-basket” with my playmates then suddenly, I felt something blocking my ear that made me stop running round and round the four circles. It felt like I was lost. The next thing I knew, I hit the large stone flower box with my head. I got a scar on my right head just above my right ear because of it. Good thing, my hair had it covered. It felt like I’ve lost track of the directions that time.
Anyways, I also wonder how it feels like for those real-life deaf actor and actresses who starred in Switched At Birth, how they cope up and how they deal with their everyday living. Because as the teacher said, hearing aids only amplify sounds and can’t replace normal hearing.
And one more thing, a funny memory I remember when we were discussing earthquake safety. It was an earthquake last year, I think some time in August, when I made my family worried because they couldn’t reach me through the phone that night while I was fast asleep. I started to sleep by the way that time, around four or five in the afternoon and obviously, I wasn’t aware of the commotion outside. I only found out about the earthquake the next morning when I check on my phone and saw several missed calls and text messages from my family back in the province. I honestly learn my lesson the hard way.
The truth is, it was last Friday' discussion that made me realized that it is our ears that keep our balance. It gives direction. And at some point I came to thinking that there was this one time when we were playing “open-basket” with my playmates then suddenly, I felt something blocking my ear that made me stop running round and round the four circles. It felt like I was lost. The next thing I knew, I hit the large stone flower box with my head. I got a scar on my right head just above my right ear because of it. Good thing, my hair had it covered. It felt like I’ve lost track of the directions that time.
Anyways, I also wonder how it feels like for those real-life deaf actor and actresses who starred in Switched At Birth, how they cope up and how they deal with their everyday living. Because as the teacher said, hearing aids only amplify sounds and can’t replace normal hearing.
And one more thing, a funny memory I remember when we were discussing earthquake safety. It was an earthquake last year, I think some time in August, when I made my family worried because they couldn’t reach me through the phone that night while I was fast asleep. I started to sleep by the way that time, around four or five in the afternoon and obviously, I wasn’t aware of the commotion outside. I only found out about the earthquake the next morning when I check on my phone and saw several missed calls and text messages from my family back in the province. I honestly learn my lesson the hard way.
- M
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