Even with the music paused it’s hard to escape all the sounds. They are everywhere. There is no true silence.
I dream of a world where I could experience silence sometimes. The only sounds would be the blood flowing throughout my body, the air moving in and out of my lungs, and the sound of my thoughts. I also wonder what it would be like to be completely without thought.
Sorry don’t mean to be turning all Monk on y’all.. lol
But nothing of this world in itself brings lasting satisfaction… not basketball games, not birthday parties, not school, not clothes, not a job, not technology, not first place ribbons for school hug special school projects, not a boyfriend- nothing.
I have seen/experienced (or will be very shortly) all these things in the past week… but none of them bring satisfaction.. it is just noise.
I want to get beyond the noise. It is so distracting and end up messing up all of my priorities.. I have such a hard time getting it all right.
I mess it up all the time...
So I encourage you to take 5 minutes, 20 minutes, an hour, maybe more.. to have quiet time this weekend. it's something i want to try to do. I am going to do it (these types of sites are great for accountability.. lol)
I want silence.
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weird. I was thinking a lot about this same subject yesterday. well maybe not just this subject but it goes along the lines of what you're kinda saying. Yesterday I was out jogging around and I had my ipod in. I was in a confused state of mind, things weren’t the best yesterday. I was listening to my ipod and I saw a dad with his son who’s handicapped. The dad pushes his son in his wheelchair pretty much everyday and talks to him. And then the cd I was listening to ended and I heard silence. Nothing. It was all gone. I couldn’t hear the dad talking to his son. I really couldn’t hear much of anything other then my shoes clapping onto the sidewalk and the steady breathing that kept me alive. But I didn’t turn on another song. I was listening to the music that was being created around me. The low hum of the static coming from the earphones was smoothing. Then I got to thinking how lonely people are. How many times we just walk around to get through the day, get through life. I passed people as I was jogging, many if not all, didn’t want to have anything to do with me. I would give them a smile but they would look away. I could tell many of them just wanted to avoid me being in their presents just for a second as we pass each other. The silence was good. Better then anything else yesterday. Even I I sit here now, still haven’t had picked something to fill up the emptiness of my room, I hear the birds outside, the clicking of my keyboard, the humming of my computer. But even sometimes these things are too loud. You said it all better Chrissy. I’m just happy to see that yesterday someone had the same thought as me. Alright, enough of this. It doesn’t even go to good with the subject. Just some of my thoughts. sorry if it's too long
Good thoughts, Lizzy and Chrissy.
Silence is good. To reach that point would be amazing.
I wish you well with your new challenge, haha. let me know how it goes. :)
i think the saying is "silence is golden."
There are days when I wish there was just somewhere I could go. Walk away from it all. All the noise of life and loneliness. Of unlasting 'happiness'.
It's a different silence than that which can consume you when you're feeling down. Alone. Hopeless.
There's beauty in it. Like now. The only sounds I hear are my computer and me. Someone eating in the other room. A silence filled with warmth.
But there are days when I'm afraid of that silence. Of the things it'll show me. What I have to face when I'm there.
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