Silence- and why I crave it
I work in a fast paced (my own doing by the way), demanding job (not my own doing- ask the children...) and I have noise all day long. Sometimes it is loud, sometimes it is not so loud. But it is always there. Some kind of noise from 7:00am when I arrive until 5pm when I leave. When I get home- again I'm not complaining here- my little boy is noisy until he goes to bed. Then I go for a walk and listen to a podcast- again more noise. It seems that I can't get away from it. Obviously we need noise to survive and communicate. If there was no noise, there would be no human race- simple as that. However, as I write this, my little boy is asleep and my wife is out. So I do actually have complete silence. To be honest- it feels like bliss. Utter bliss. I do think that we need a daily portion of silence. When we listen to sounds our brain is actually working to process these sounds and deciding if or how we need to respond to them. Are they exciting? Are they calming? Ar...