What's All the Love About Headphones?
Everyone in my house wears headphones. Well, that’s only two, if you don’t count me. But every time I come into the family room, there’s my son, headphones clasped to his head, listening to music or watching YouTube or doing I don’t know what, and in the dining room, my husband sits, hunched over his computer, with these huge padded things covering his ears (he looks like an air traffic controller). Probably I’m just out of it but what is it with headphones, or ear buds, I guess they’re called, for those people out walking the dog or jogging? Wouldn’t they just like to hear what’s in their head, for once? I jog and the main reason I do is so that I can think. The greatest ideas come to me out running (like the idea for this essay), and they would stay out in the atmosphere (or somewhere) if I were listening to Barry White (uh oh, I just gave away my age). I believe some people wear them to shut out the world. Wouldn’t be the first time, I guess...