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I love music. In fact, I love music so much that I carry around a good portion of my music library with me at any moment inside of my Ipod. I like to plug my Ipod in to my AUX port on my car stereo. Then I get out of my car and put in my small ear buds and continue to fill my eardrums with the latest from the latest good band.

The world is my music video for the music pounding into my eardrums, and I love it. But for how long?

Will this new found musical freedom inevitably cause me to lose the ability to hear the music I live for? I think yes. The truth of the matter is that the older you get the more your hearing goes; older people lose the ability each continuing year to hear certain frequencies. The human ear can hear sounds between 20 and 20,000 hz. The low end is the bass and rumble while the upper end adding our treble and ability to hear clarity to everything in the middle. The first parts of hearing to go are in the high end. Once you lose the ability to hear a certain frequency, you never get it back.

Tiny hairs in your ear give us the ability to hear things. When these hairs are damaged by prolonged loud sounds, they die and they never are reborn. Every time you hear that ringing sound in your ear, that is tiny hair follicles dying. I hate that sound. It's called Tinitus.

This generation is coming into the prime of life with speakers in their ears, and they are going to leave this life with hearing aides replacing the ear buds that once held the heart beat rhythyms of their day in and day out soundtrack.

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