A nice day at Barangaroo today with sons and a gf. Good food, but the restaurant was oppressively loud. Conversations, not dickheads. I took my hearing aids out, because I could only hear other conversations, not ours. We moved outside, & I genuinely felt the weight of all those conversations leaving my shoulders. Inside, ugh, weighed down, not coping, outside, weight gone, enjoyed lunch, could hear the others. I was staggered by how much happier I felt outside, away from the noise. Shocked.