Good day everybody. I hope you're all doing good? I'm fine here.
I'll consider myself very different from others on this topic because my take is actually far from a normal human because normally, a lot of people will pick loud sound at the most disturbing to them while I'm here ranting about mosquito noise which can be easily avoided. Lol
I'm among those who prefer to be bitten by a mosquito than to be disturbed rampantly by its sound. I know it sounds weird because naturally, its bite is harmful to human health. I know that very well, but if I'm placed in a situation to choose between a mosquito bite or being disturbed by its noise, I would choose the bite.
The village I grew up in, I never had any cause for alarm from mosquito bites, even though it was a typical rural area surrounded by bushes. However, the city where I went to school was a complete opposite, a very fine city but was heavily dominated by mosquitoes, which come out at night to terrorize the whole area.
I had a terrible experience with mosquitoes in my second year of school, especially during hot weather when sleeping at night became a battle. At that time, once it was 6:00 pm, mosquitoes would start coming out from their hiding places with their alarming sound, signaling 'no sleeping tonight.'
I used to sleep under a mosquito net, but their sound scared me into thinking they were inside the net with me. It was terrible to sweat in a hot room, sleep inside a mosquito net, and then hear the buzzing of mosquitoes in the air. Many times, I would get up to try and kill them, but the more I killed, the more they came, just like soldiers in a barrack.
Many times, I would beg them to bite me, suck the amount of blood they wanted, and then leave the room, but of course, mosquitoes are not humans and don't understand human wishes.
Currently, I'm still dealing with mosquitoes in the same city, but I fight them with insecticides to kill them before I sleep. However, they seem never-ending.
The sound of mosquitoes is one that I hate so much; it's more piercing to my eardrums than that of a loudspeaker. Whenever I hear the sound, it feels like witches are after my life, and if it's at night, I suddenly become sleepless.
There was a time I traveled to a camping event organized by a church, and the room we were given to sleep in was infested with mosquitoes. During the night, they buzzed loudly, but to my surprise, my colleagues were sleeping as if nothing was wrong while I was up chasing the mosquitos via their sound.
That's when I realized that actually, we all respond differently to things, just like they taught us in biology.
It's the same way a lot of people don't feel mosquito bite as if they have repellent in their body while other, someone like me will be running helter-skelter in order to dodge the bite of a mosquito. Such is life.
Thank you for reading.