what would you do with a week's worth of silence?. is it even possible to find anymore, what with the hum of technology that is now the soundtrack of our daily lives. refrigerators, with their false voice of efficiency, break into kitchens and interrupt an otherwise peaceful atmosphere. fans force themselves on us from behind plastic hard drives. televisions are constantly turned on. noise is normal, and if it can't be heard than we inevitably assume something is wrong. why is it so quiet? who turned off the tv? why isn't everyone trying to talk at once?
a week's worth of silence would be to some unbearable, and hardly valuable. who wants to understand that time stands still, and it is us who barrel through it, without any awareness of where we're going or from where we came, only an unintelligent notion that there was a starting point way back 'there' and somewhere, in a perfectly straight line some distance ahead, is where it will end. our lives are merely series of perfectly straight dots that our egos mindlessly put together.
i have been by myself now for five days, and am a bit resentful of the sounds around me, though i also have to admit there have a few moments when i have been grateful for the knowledge that help is just a scream away...haha..... why is the fridge so loud? when are we going to make something more energy efficient? who do we hold accountable for this lack of service? ultimately, when it comes to things that we find ourselves without, the blame is on us.
even now, the music is blaring...
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Yarrr. This makes me think of something a friend of mine has proposed: a weekly digital detox day; a day to escape the influence of all digital technology. No phones, no computers, no screens, and so on. Katelyn and I tried this one day, and it was good, but I want to make it at least a monthly occurrence for us. That can be difficult in our current life, since I must use computers 6 days a week for the job, unless I really want to get extreme about it.
ReplyDeleteWhat I REALLY want to do, though, is get all the kiddies of the world doing this for at least one Saturday of every month. In my skool, I find it terrible that so many young people have forgotten how to make their own fun.