Why has it become so hard to enjoy any peace and quiet? People seem to feel this need to surround themselves with as much noise as they can at any given moment. Booming car stereos shaking everything around you. Loud motorcycles crackling through the streets. Car engines gunning their way from red light to red light. Yammering loudly on a cell phone. Screaming at each other across the street. Blaring television on all day. Assaulted by sound every waking moment of the day.
Am I the only one left who appreciates the value in silence any more? Sometimes, it would seem so.
There are such amazing sounds to be heard if we'd just shut the heck up for a while. Birds singing. The wind rustling the leaves. Rain pittering and pattering on the roof. The low rumble of distant thunder. Sounds that soothe and relax, rather than unnerve and irritate. Sounds that give us a chance to just think. Giving us the time to stop doing and begin being. What wonderful gifts the quiet can give us.