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Being able to listen to your own choice of music privately despite the crowds or the outdoor surroundings, there are still concerns about what loud thrumming music can do the fragile tissue of the eardrums. The ears are very sensitive to certain decibels and those decibels are congruent with the ear buds of an Mp3 player. Hearing your own music privately, allowing the tunes to take you to a new dimension or work through an indescribable hurt can be emotionally healing but murder on the eardrums.

The younger you are the less likely you are to give your ears any consideration and the more likely you are to believe that ear damage happens to other people, especially from something as similar as music.

Music is like a steady pulse for some people, something to cling to when nothing else seems quite right. Yet that steady pulse is causing more hearing loss than factory work in people under age thirty. Simply turning the music down a swipe or two can save your hearing for life.

When the infamous walkmans first arrived on the scene, there was a great deal of publicity about what extreme decibels could do for the music lover’s hearing. However, we have become accustomed to the little white buds stuck in the ears for just about any occasion and we rarely remind our teens and young adults about the dangers of hearing loss. Music can last a lifetime for those who protect their ears while being swept away by its awesome power.