I truly enjoy writing. Talking is another thing. I am just not that fond of it. When I have something to say, I say it. When I don’t, I stay quiet. Of course, all the foregoing applies when I am sane and sober, which is around 80% of the time. As for the other 20%? I really don’t know who that guy is. Why is it that people these days just can’t shut up? Every event of life has to be anal-ized and re-anal-ized until it is reduced to meaninglessness. I realize that a lot of the endless banter is just to fill air time, but couldn’t it be filled more creatively and productively than endless talking heads with nothing new to say. Just look at this post, it is a complete waste of time, mine and yours. Yes of course we all know the old saying that “nature abhors a vacuum.” But wouldn’t it be refreshing if we could resist the temptation to fill it ourselves and let mother nature take her own course. Why are we so afraid of the quiet? What if you turned on your television, and there was nothing playing on any channel? Just “noise,” or better, pitch darkness. We would all freak out wouldn’t we? We would be fully convinced that the apocalypse was upon us, after checking to make sure we didn’t forget to pay the cable bill. I have often wondered how life would change if there was no “background noise.” Noise seems to be a requirement these days for true life fulfillment. Think of a quiet party, with no music or talking, just everyone sitting around relishing in the soundlessness. Absurd thought, huh? But I really believe that quietness is drastically underrated. How can you ever get in tune with what is going on inside your head, when you are constantly distracted by the noise that is bombarding your eardrums outside of it? Answer, you can’t. I believe the only way to make sense of our lives is to find some time to just be quiet. Be quiet and listen to what our brain has to tell us. Be quiet and connect with the natural world. Listen to the wind blowing through the trees, rather than blowhards blasting out the media airwaves. Try it, you might make a startling discovery. You might discover that there are some amazing things going on inside your own head, you just haven’t been able to hear them. Ok, now I’ll shut up. Won’t you do the same?
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