Packaged sound is not something we question. As in with something like 

smoking

or 

drinking

it's obvious that we ought to consider "maybe I shouldn't be doing this" or at the least "maybe I ought to reduce this." But with packaged sound one might not think that. It's just sound, noise right?

So I can't say that I ever tried to reduce my consumption of 

packaged sound

during this past phase of my life. But there had been a time where I wouldn't go more than one hour without something audible playing in the background. Either 

music

or a 

podcast

or an 

audiobook

. 

I say I wouldn't, but really it should be I couldn't have. But because listening to things constantly wasn't anything people painted as a vice I never had to try to stop it.

About a year ago I cancelled my 

Audible

subscription. I noticed that I was just getting more and more audiobooks -- one each month -- and wasn't listening to them. They were all good books, just didn't feel the need to constantly be listening to packaged sound and 

packaged content

all the time. There's plenty of sound and information just coming in... from this thing called life. And that was what I was beginning to see. To listen to.

I bet I have enough Audiobooks to last me until my 50s or so.