It is time to move on, people. Within days of the launch of the Sennheiser MTW5, it is time to move on. No, not from them, but with them. I think the trap we fall into is looking for others to justify their sanity, opinions, and/or choices. We are so very affected by others’ beliefs that we have to make sure they are wrong or crazy so we do not have to feel like our choices might be wrong simply because someone else did not feel the same way we did about the choice, product, or experience. We have been lied to and trained to believe that when most people agree with a direction, that makes that direction right and all others wrong. We believe if most people believe we are right, that finally makes us right even though we believed we were before they confined it. My Sennheiser MTW5 sound personalization is mine, and with it, the MTW5 build, fit, and drivers have created the most dominant results in sound quality, fit, and comfort, along with longevity that Bluetooth has ever seen, in my subjective opinion. It might not be this way for you or your sound personalization might be completely different.
But we as people, spend hours, days, or more in forums or chat rooms fighting with others who might have different views or choices because we can’t afford for the majority of people on that forum or chat to believe that the other person is right, as that would mean we are flawed. That’s like trying to convince another person that their favorite color should be the same as ours, or changing your favorite color to a different one because you find that out of the 8 billion people in the world, 24 people agreed that yellow is the best color. It’s absolutely ridiculous, and if we stop and think about it in this manner, someone eventually will see how crazy our concerns are over other people’s choices matching ours. Even this article’s view on this situation won’t be accepted by many or even the majority, and that’s fine.
One thing we can control is where we go online and where we respond or post things. If you are the type of person who is burnt out by the social media craze, the most overlooked step is to stop posting, and there is nothing wrong with that. We have convinced ourselves that a social media presence is our life when it isn’t. Social media should be a fun hobby of passion, not a cruel burden. The moment it becomes something cruel and burdensome is the moment it is no longer needed in your life. But over and over again, I see people whose only view on this is to keep fighting online and debating with strangers to the point that they spend hours and days in feuds over things they cannot control or convince others of, especially about this hobby of sound, which is completely subjective. We have got to be better than this. Tech isn’t our god, nor are the people in the chat rooms our family or even true friends. Why give them your health and mind?
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