I've had tinnitus since I was around 20 years old, got it on new year's eve when some fireworks exploded very close to my left ear. Was deaf for two days and go

I've had tinnitus since I was around 20 years old, got it on new year's eve when some fireworks exploded very close to my left ear. Was deaf for two days and got an 8kHz tinnitus in that ear, permanently, after those two days. It's not very loud, but I always hear it unless it's noisy. I've had it for many decades by now. However - I'm lucky in that I'm not really bothered by it anymore. In fact I didn't notice it now until I saw the HN headline and thought "tinnitus". And now I hear it. It's not very loud, as I said, but still loud enough to hear it over the traffic noise outside. And still, somehow, I forget about it a lot of the time. A guy at work is so disturbed by his tinnitus that he sometimes have to take the rest of the day off. I'm lucky I guess. I don't know if there's any mental method which can help with this. Edit: I remember now that when I still traveled at lot at work the tinnitus would get worse after long noisy flights, and last for a while (up to a month) after that. I started using good noise-cancelling headphones and that definitely helped. As someone else said, protect you ears. It's even more important if you already have some hearing issues, I believe.