The Silence

Silence is simple.

Silence is perfect, it is the closest thing we have to nothing. And with nothing, comes no flaw, and no margin for error, as it is after all: nothing.

When silence strikes, it is powerful, as it commands whichever setting it is in; yet, at the same time it is vulnerable in the fact that it can be broken by the slightest "something" like a pin dropping.

And nowadays, silence is a practical impossibility to find.

Yet, it seems like the only time we truly find it is when we lay to rest. And in that still moment, and only in that moment you realize: silence is everything. Silence gives weight to every sound, movement, paranoiac sensation, all while remaining the same, still silence.

Lying in that bed, the brain is not satisfied with simply doing nothing, and seeing as there are no distractions coming from the sounds that simply aren't there. So in turn your thought process begins, and even though there is nothing, there is also everything, seeing as your mind will take you to a digression of your life, and all the experiences that took up your life. And you try to escape it, but you really can't escape the silence, because there is simply too much noise in your mind.

Perhaps it is because of this, that we choose to immerse ourselves with gadgets and iPods to block out the silence, and isolate ourselves in noise. Because of all the noise, we cannot concentrate or think of much, and we are afraid to have unsettling thoughts, and we choose to retreat to simplicity. We are a species that essentially lives alone, and we are afraid of the silence, because the desolation we feel is imminently going to remind us of the very sad truth over and over again.

Of course, silence is not only audio, it is applicable for every other sense. Why is it that when paint first hits a canvas, there is instant beauty in it? Because it is that same stroke, that shows us that from nothing can come something, and all the "somethings" in this world are distractions. We must not fear, nor embrace the silence, but simply recognize that it is there, and its power.

There are two ways silence can truly be silence:

When you are genuinely lost with no sense of direction, and the experience you are going through completely swallows any possible thought

And, when there is no silence at all.

"Silence is the most powerful scream"