Nearly everyday I speak with someone whoﾠclearly suffers from the affects of hearing loss.ﾠ Whenever I speak with someone who denies the handicap imposed by their hearing loss I often wonder what if the body hurt everytime a syllable was missed or if there was a twinge whenever a haircell was damaged.ﾠﾠThis is not to say I want people to sufferﾠphysically on top of their hearingﾠloss.ﾠ I justﾠthink we would have a better understanding of justﾠhow often hearing loss interferes in our life if we wereﾠnotified we missed something.ﾠ Similar to a back injury.ﾠ We do not even considerﾠthe number of muscles, nor the frequency in which they areﾠused toﾠmaintain ourﾠposture andﾠbreathing until we pull or damage one.ﾠﾠEvenﾠpulling one backﾠmuscle can make daily lifeﾠnearly intollerable.ﾠﾠﾠ Unfortunately, as hearing impaired people go through thier day there is no shooting pain, ache or twinge.ﾠ Time just marches on and our mind gradually forgets the sound of gravel under our feet, the blinker in the car, and the cricket in the garage.ﾠ Peopleﾠdon't stop to clarify the words they don't know weren't understood.ﾠ We too often just adjust to the new softer world wishing people would take the marbles out of their mouth and speak clearer.ﾠ Fortunately it doesn't hurt, but I often wonder how easy it would be to live in denial if it did?