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The right to a good sleep
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Everyone should have the opportunity to enjoy a good sleep or a good night rest, but here in my hometown, I think it is quite unfortunate that we do not enjoy these rights as much as one would love to.

Many people are so ignorant of the effect of noise pollution that they enjoy contributing to it. I once took a ride with a friend who was a truck driver and it was amazing what I noticed in him. The truck driver would engage his horns even when there was no clear reason to do so. Sometimes he would engage the horns just when he noticed that people were around and watching him go by, even when traffic was smooth and no obstruction on the road. He would nevertheless engage the horns just to attract attention and the weird admiration of some people perhaps.

I had gotten irritated once and asked him why he enjoyed it even when there was no cause for it and his only logical response was that he does it just for the fun of it and that the more it pissed people off, the more he enjoyed himself.

In the cities the story is the same, because most of our cities are dotted by shopping complexes and mini market stores vis-à-vis residential houses. The marketers in these stores, especially the electronics and the stores selling discs, turn their stereos to alarming volumes because they want to attract potential customers.

Motorbikes which are alternatives to buses and taxis, as quick modes of transportation, out-number the vehicles and one could just imagine the blaring of motorbike horns almost instantaneously at every ten to fifteen seconds interval as they make use of the road.

In my side of town where I live, though a middle class neigbourhood, but the rise of the middle and working class has made noise pollution a hellish experience. Most people in my neigbourhood can now afford the luxury of private generators and the noisy type for that matter. When the inefficient national electrical corporation disrupts electricity supply, my neigbourhood could best be described ironically as a razzmatazz, because almost every home in the neigbourhood switches over to generators and the noise pollution it generates is just explosive!

October 4, 2008 | 5:16 AM Comments  0 comments

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