Silence is Golden

When we think of silence we think of the absence of sound. What about thinking of sound as the absence of silence? We rarely see things in the same way all of the time. If their is a lot of sound when you want silence then you only hear the noise and not everything that does not. When our teacher didn't talk on the first day of school everyone found it awkward and figured something was going wrong (whether we were too loud or not following some sort of directions). After years of experience, we have been able to guess when someone or thing is supposed to make noise and when it's not. In general people are more quiet throughout the day than making noise but we seem to have very high expectations for noise at certain times when most of our lives we are quiet. Silence gives time for inner reflection but other people would rather have their minds busy with other things than have time to just sit and think. Today time to relax and reflect is considered wasted time, every seconds of our lives are devoted to become the best we can be solely for the material gain and not the emotional. Next time that you have a free time, take some time and listen to the sweet sound of silence.