2006-07-05 15:53:34 · 41 answers · asked by Shade 3 in Health ➔ Mental Health
although i would hate to lose my sight, i would rather have my hearing. i would feel very isolated being deaf. not many people use sign language so communication would be very difficult. i can't imagine never hearing another sound.
2006-07-05 16:04:12 · answer #1 · answered by sunnyca 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If "forced" to choose between seeing and hearing...that you could have one but not the other, I would have to say the "seeing" is the most important sense to have (of the five senses, actually), because of this one very important truth: All "knowledge" that a person obtains, he or she obtains through the sense of "sight". If you cannot hear, at least you can "read" on a placard what the other person is trying to communicate. Again, 70% of ALL KNOWLEDGE" is obtained through the sense of sight. So sight is obviously the most important of the five-senses. In no way, can the sense of hearing match the value of the sense of sight. Period.
2006-07-05 16:08:23 · answer #2 · answered by LARRY M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am losing my hearing. It has made me acutely aware of how much I am missing. Helen Keller said that sight connects us to the world but hearing connects us to each other.
One starts not wanting to go to theaters, to movies, to concerts, or even to restaurants as you grow more an more isolated in a world that just does not understand you cannot hear them.
I still hear sounds, you see. I just cannot distinguish many of the higher pitched sounds, sounds that carry meaning in English like S and SH, TH, K, T. Things like that. Trying to understand a waitress in a crowded noisy restaurant where I cannot see her lips move is very difficult. Yes, I do now wear hearing aids. They sort of work. Sort of. No hearing aid is the same as natural hearing.
Cochlear implants are for people who are stone deaf. They do not work for everyone, are very painful to some, expensive, and well... not yet approved in my case.
I also have tinninitus. It sounds like cicadas (you know those big bugs that sing in summertime in the East coast?) all the time.
The US Army got me my hearing difficulties. Helicopters, machine guns, explosives. Take care of your ears, my friends.
Still, I can drive. I hate to feel dependent on anyone or anything. I will take losing my hearing to losing my sight. Besides, I am a photographer at least learning to be one.
2006-07-05 16:23:23 · answer #3 · answered by NeoArt 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Keep- sight. I could still drive to get around and I could still read and write. And I do happen to know some sign language already. I'd miss music! But I could survive. Right now I have cataracts I can't afford to do anything about and I'll soon be back living out of my truck. What a pain it is to drive when you can't see a thing! And you've got to keep moving.. or be arrested.
2006-07-05 16:00:41 · answer #4 · answered by niteowl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow....really good ?
Initially I thought my answer would have been sight, to never see the sun rise, or an evening snow fall, or a child's face?? but then I thought about going without music, I don't think I could survive that. Music and laughter....feed my soul, I would surely perish if I could not hear those things.
2006-07-19 15:21:26 · answer #5 · answered by mchlmybelle 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People born without hearing or sight would generally rather hear, than see. But then, they don't know what they are missing.
2006-07-13 17:12:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would rather lose my sight, it wouldn't be too hard to adjust and I'd know colors and shapes and stuff already so everything could be described to me but how do you sign the sound of laughter, or Billie Holidays voice, the sigh of content and the sound of the surf and the gulls, or hearing him say I Love You, oh no....I couldn't be without that, that would be near death
2006-07-15 19:23:38 · answer #7 · answered by the blue olive 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would give up hearing and keep sight, I woulden't want to see black for the rest of my life, sight is the most important thing, that's what I belive anyway.
2006-07-05 16:40:34 · answer #8 · answered by tamilia4u 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd much rather keep my sight. A person can still function fairly well if deaf, but without eyesight, you give up a good bit of independence.
2006-07-06 13:53:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
sight because hearing alot of bs all the time gets on my nerrves and well i can choose to read what I want
2006-07-05 16:24:00 · answer #10 · answered by jcleann13 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sight. We could get along in life without hearing but not without seeing as easily, I think anyway.
2006-07-05 15:56:02 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋