Cough: The Noise of Politeness
I am the kind of person who hates noise, not all noise, only unnecessary noise. By unnecessary, I mean noise that I personally find disturbing. For example, making noise while eating or drinking, vehicle’s horn in traffic etc. You might be wondering why I am so particular about noise. Let me share a small experience that changed the way I look at it and made me rethink my perspective. After joining MCA, I really don’t know how time flew. The first internals arrived so quickly. We MCA studen ts were supposed to write our exams in the MBA block, where each bench can have two students, one each from MCA and MBA. In total, there were four rows of benches, and I was seated on the third bench in the first row, along with a guy from MBA. It was winter and winter in Bengaluru, of course, means students with health issues keep coughing. As I mentioned earlier, I don’t like unnecessary noise, and all this coughing kept irritating me. After sometime, at one moment, I heard a noise, a noise ...