Silence
They say silence is golden, but do you truly understand it? People are always trying to fill their lives with people, tv, music, and noise. What happens when we don’t allow ourselves the quiet? We avoid the internal world.
Ive met plenty of people who always have to be doing something, i stead of just allowing theirselves to sit and listen to their own breathe. Ive met people who constantly need others to surround them because they can’t stand to be alone yet even with all those people they are quiet lonely. And I’ve met the opposite. I love being on my own, not because I don’t enjoy people, but I really just enjoy myself and the freedom I have from it. I also enjoy honesty, rawness, and depth to conversations, so many times I’d rather stay silent and listen to people rather then be the center of attention. With some people though I enjoy being quiet theatrical, and just weird. But around many others I come off as quiet. Its just I don’t always find what they are saying interesting, or funny, or maybe I am just listening to others more or the topic is not for me or I find it boring or many reasons. Its all dependent on the situation. And sometimes I feel that words can’t express what it is I am trying to say, so instead I say nothing.
Whatever the reason I find my instincts to reading body language, mannerisms, tones of voice and so on how I interact with others. But for the most part I want to talk about the depth of your soul, not the party you went to with chris. That I find trivial and quite um to put it plainly boring. Lets talk about frequencies, what ifs about the universe, your past, your present, your motivation and travels. How you are manifesting your future, ya know that sort of thing.
As I am writing this I am on the verge of sleep so I apologize if this isnt really well written and got off topic. But I love the silence, it makes me focus on my breath. It allows me to check in with myself today and see what is coming up, how do I feel and the like. Silence should be embraced, even if people feel its awkward. There is still so much being said in that awkwardness we just never spend the time there so we avoid it, and fill it with idle chit chat. Id rather much sit there, making a goofy face and just allowing this moment to being us closer. Silence is like an agreement where two people share the moment with each other, and its a beautiful thing. It doesn’t always have to be loud or have conversations, it can just be sharing space. We should normalize this because then maybe people wont be so desperate to fill a highlight real with nonsense.
How do you handle silence? Do you avoid it at all costs? Do you run from it? Well then I think you might need to take a moment and sit with yourself and meditate on that. Embrace it like the sound of snow falling, that type of quiet is remarkable and absolutely stunning. Take a moment to just allow yourself to be in it.
Today was a 6. Tired.