• Earphones isolate you
  • there’s a lot of times where I get the urge to talk to someone. Whether it’s because I want to compliment them or or strike a conversation
    • a lot of the times, these opportunities are only open for a split second, so you have no time to think or prepare
      • In other words, no time to put out your earphones/headphones
  • for this reason I kind of trained myself to be less curious and spontaneous when I put earphones on.
    • I’m personally able to go back to my curious and spontaneous self when I didn’t have my earphones on
    • but I’m sure there are a lot of ppl who have trained that muscle for so long it has become the norm. So even when they don’t have earphones on, they act like r