Peace after a War

We are living in a digital world and we have many things in the current time for our recreation. Watching movies and listening to music are very common things for recreational purposes. Maybe because of that, almost everyone has a good-quality sound system. We can enjoy music and movies using default devices but a good quality sound system gives a better experience and I totally agree with it.

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Everything is good within a limit but when it crosses the limit it creates chaos and it's not beneficial. In the current time, various kinds of pollution are occurring and one of the most concerning pollution is sound pollution or noise pollution. Noise pollution is increasing significantly in recent days and little or more we are facing the consequences of it also. Continuous sound pollution decreases our hearing ability. Noise pollution creates an indirect impact because of what it's hard to notice. But it's proven that in the long term, sound pollution gives us maximum damage. In most cases, the mood becomes irritable which is also an impact of sound pollution. So I think we should not take the sound pollution lightly.

There are many reasons behind increasing the sound pollution in recent days. One of the common things is because of the extreme level of transport on the road and in the current time and to be honest, it's almost impossible to reduce transport but I think unnecessarily stopping using horns can reduce pollution but not fully. Besides, most machines produce a good amount of sounds which cannot be stopped. Those things are understandable but some people do sound pollution intentionally and actually don't care about others. Maybe they get a different kind of satisfaction to make others suffer.

I am a very cool person and I don't get angry naturally and it's not so easy for someone to bother me easily because I have good resilience power. Resilience is my choice not my weakness. I make them suffer who think they can do anything and I will remain quiet every time. My ideology is quite simple and that is "Don't mess with me thinking that I am weak otherwise you need to pay a high price for it". Today I am going to share the incident of noise pollution that happened in my mess(like hostels but not fully) life approximately 5 years ago.

In the mess, everyone was very friendly with me. Almost every one of the mess members had a sound system and everyone used to know when to play it and when not. They are quite sensible and had enough common sense. In fact, we used to enjoy movies using sound systems together but never was so loud to disturb others, especially neighbours. All the mess members were in the same flat and in each room of flat 2 mess members used to stay. At that time a new mess number took a seat in the middle room. In the first month, there was nothing wrong and everything was going well approximately 1.5 months later he bought a new sound system.

He used to come home late and after taking dinner and finishing some tasks he used to play music and most of the time it's after 1.00 a.m. Moreover, he used to use loud volume. Can you imagine it was the time many of us went to sleep? So it was creating disturbance in our sleep. Other mess members informed him and told him to lower the volume or stop it. He used to lower the volume of music for a little time and approximately 15 to 20 minutes later he used to increase the volume again and everyone got used to with it and nobody wanted to lose their energy to bother him. I was the one who was silent in the first 15 to 20 days but when others stopped saying I started to give him warning continuously and I reminded him each time when he increased the volume after the first warning. I was the one who warned him approximately 2/3 times each day and for that reason whenever he saw me he used to feel angry and he could not express his anger for some days. I understood that he started to think about me like an enemy but I could not do anything about it because it was his choice.

He used to play music in loud volume from approximately 1.00 a.m. to 4.00 a.m. almost everyday. He used to ignore my warning and I was continuously giving him warning. It was disturbing my sleep greatly and one day I told him to leave the mess and find messmates who were like him. That day he showed his anger and said " You are very irritating and don't you understand you are disturbing me too much? It's my personal choice to play music in loud or low volume. Who are you to tell me to lower the volume? I am the owner of the sound system. So, I will decide what to do and how much volume and when I will play music depends on me. If you are facing issues then you can go out of the mess" .
His words really made me feel very angry and that day I decided to teach him a lesson.

I was thinking about how to teach him a lesson and I got an idea. He used to go to sleep after 4.00 a.m. and I used to wake up at 6/7 a.m. and most of the messmates used to wake up at the similar time. So after 2 days after waking up at 6.00 a.m., I started to play loud music in the morning using my sound system and my primary target was to disturb his sleep. First some days he ignored it but after that time I increased the volume and I ensured it would not allow him to sleep in the morning. In fact, I used to play it at night to create disturbance and not allow him to enjoy music at night. Two different music from two sound systems at the same time does not allow anyone to enjoy music. After some days he told me why I was doing this and why I was disturbing him and in reply I said I was enjoying music nothing else. Firstly I was not allowing him to enjoy music. Secondly, I was not giving him the opportunity to sleep well. Indeed it also created an imbalance in my sleep but I had time to recover my sleep in the afternoon time which wasn't possible for him. So approximately 1 month that thing continued and I made his life like hell. I wasn't afraid of anything because I had support from other mess members. Moreover, our neighbours also complained about him to the building owner. It was unfortunate that neighbours made the complaint which wasn't in my plan. They used to see him playing loud music and even if I played music in the morning the victim was the so-called mess mate😅. The building owner scolded him and after that he decided not to mess with me. He left the mess within a few days. And I know he was not a person to change his habit and it was the reason for leaving the mess. So my sound system again went into silent mode and peace was established.

Honestly, I don't feel bad for that kind of person. In fact, I would love to punish that kind of person with activities. I requested him many times and he took my resilience as my weakness and he suffered at the end. Sometimes I feel peace come to us after a war😅( not every time).