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Yes, you can learn to ignore them. Switch
off your hearing faculties consciously.
Easier said than done but it is possible.
Can you stop the DJ? No
Can you stop the loudspeakers blaring? No.
Can you stop the barking dogs? No
You can of course request neighbours to
reduce the volume a bit, will they listen?
Maybe not. Maybe yes, for a little while *When new facilities are being built like
that’s it. So you choose to ignore them and the college campus, a hospital complex
let it not disturb you. that involves various buildings, with
We can actually do the same with some landscaping in between, including
everything and everybody and not let some garden areas, they always make
it affect your blood pressure and your roads around the garden block. I wonder
wellbeing. why the designers of such a facility do not
understand the psychology of a person
on foot. ….. To take the shortest route! No
matter how many sign boards are put up
saying “do not walk on the grass”, people
do and will keep doing so. Soon a path
is created by the walkers on the shortest
route. Why can’t the design include a path
to facilitate this? It could be part of the
design itself. How nicely it has been done in
a private garden.

Another example is of how language
is used. How can anybody Celebrate
something like AIDS? Ever seen posters
about World AIDS Day or Cancer day
- 1st. December or 4th February? When
any function is held the communication
reads “AIDS Day will be celebrated on 1st
December”. Can’t we word it differently?
Isn’t that common sense?
*Surprisingly even communicators tend
to make silly mistakes. To ‘save water’,
images used show water is being wasted!
A positive message/ visual should be used
instead.

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