Silent Serenity

Driving seems to always be done with the radio. Ignoring the content often times heard unwantingly, I'm going to just talk about the mind droning effects that endless music can have on me.

I'm not saying that music is bad, but it's getting to the point when even on my hikes, someone is plugged in somehow to the music around us. The magic of ipods, 4-G cell phones, and endless topics relating to music I have has created a sense of sleep that I never wake up from. I'm always living the life of someone else through their music, then I try to model my life after that. That is the danger I think has crept into music. Think about it, how often do we "plug in" and "tune out" in life. We are wasting our lives to the events of another person's life. For some reason, that rubs me wrong.

What's wrong with spending a few moments in silence? Asking the question "what do I think about when I'm not influenced in my thoughts?" is oftentimes very difficult for people to answer. Music influences our thoughts, and just gives us "something else" to think about. We don't have to worry about our lives or our problems, just the problems or lives of another person for the next three or four minutes. So silence, driving in silence is actually very different. Not many like doing it because it makes them think about something that they wouldn't otherwise think about.

Are we afraid of silence? I don't think so. I think silence is a very good thing for us, that it has been and will always be that way when embraced. So there's my challenge, listen to the silent thoughts we have when we are driving by ourselves for just a short time. Sounds good right?

It's often the silence in our souls that screams louder than the chaos in the streets.

Purpose

I started a blog from another account a while ago, and after discovering how much I enjoyed blogging, I stopped blogging for some reason. So I started this account and I think it's really going to be something that is going to help me enjoy my life a little bit more.

This blog is made more for me to put my thoughts down on something and to have a healthy release in a few things. One big thing that I have really stopped doing is keeping a journal, and so I feel like my life is slipping away a few days at a time. So this is my Journal. <-- I thought I'd make that look all pretty and stuff.

So I've been have a lot of thoughts and I have really enjoyed just the ability to think, but then I look and I don't ever write anything down, so I burn myself in the end for not doing that. So having said that, to anyone who follows this, these are my thoughts, some may be abstract and might not make a ton of sense to you. That's ok, like I said, this is more for me than for you. Feel free to ask questions and clarifications on a few things if you want to though, I might respond if I think I should.


Thinking has become a joy when you don't have to find an end to the thought, but neither is it irrelevant. This is what makes a quite moment become a journey of self-discovery.