27 The Sound Silence

The Sound Silence

There is a lovely song that speaks of the sound of silence. There are times silence is the only friend you need near you, embracing silence is to embrace life itself. 

We live in times when there is so little silence, and yet it is everywhere if we take time to find and meet it. Nothing can truly break it, yet you can never grasp it. The tiny clicking of keys, the fan on a computer, cars passing by, dogs whining, background music. 

Silence seems impossible to catch; it is as difficult as catching a feather on a fan. How can something that is always there be so hard to reach, so hard to touch, so hard to grasp? 

Silence is a good friend, a friend that rarely visits. Or when it does, we close it out. We cannot achieve true friendship without some silence. We speak too much and listen too little. We don't take note of the small silences but rather the loud actions. Stop and listen, stop and hear your best of friends whispering to you and you alone.  We are too quick to fill the moments of silence. It is as if we fear a moment of silence. Don't, for silence is required to fully understand, just listen. 

Enjoy the sweet sounds of silence. All too soon it must go again as you come back to your life, as you enter the noises and the actions of society once more. 

But having been with silence, feel at ease, feel relieved.  For silence is the friend you hadn't seen in a long time. Having met it once we just want to go back and listen once more.