Post by Susan Peabody on Jun 25, 2020 18:24:53 GMT
I am struggling with everyone I know over the issue of loud music. Everybody keeps telling me to get used to it. My neighbors say I am a racist because I am white and they are black. Even my pastor likes loud band music and wants to know why I don't go to church.
I ask people nicely to turn the volume down. This seems like a compromise. Usually, they respond by turning the volume up.
I am not quite sure where my aversion to loud music comes from. I grew up in a small town listening to classical music that my dad played. I get migraines and the loud music makes them worse.
I have tried earphones but they don't work. The loudest sounds come a block away. The police tell me this is against the law but they also add that it doesn't seem so bad to them. If you can hear it from a block away it is bad.
I blame amps for part of the problem. But mostly I just ish God would remove my aversion to loud music. The police asked me why peace and quiet were so important to me. I don't know. I just like to pray and meditate to golden silence or the strains of the piano at a low volume.
I am writing about this because it has been going for 50 years. Every now and then I run into an older person who is also upset and this makes me feel better.
The hardest part for me is that I project onto these people who play loud music. I see them as selfish. I have always had a hard time with selfish people. I need to stop judging others because I can be selfish too.
Pray that God makes me deaf when the music starts. Amen