In Damon Krukowsi’s view, “Here with all these headphones is like we’re avoiding ear contact.” In other words, he believes that by wearing headphones, we block all the sounds of city life, and we are not in it. It might be accurate, but there are other reasons why we wear headphones and alienate ourselves. One of them is to avoid negative interactions with specific situations. For instance, I remember when my daughter was rushing to school one morning and was desperately looking for her Apple air pods. I was like, “you’re going to be late; just leave without them.” She responded, “no, I don’t want to because when I listen to my music, it helps me not to hear people say bad and ugly things on the train.” Even though it is a known fact that you are bound to hear all kinds of different noises when you live in New York City, and yet there is still the need to plug in headphones. By doing this, you avoid communicating with strangers or being put in an awkward position because you build a barrier of feeling uncomfortable around them. It is based more on the person’s perspective to choose to wear headphones to block out their surroundings’ sound.