The sound of silence soothes my soul.
I like the TV to be off. I like driving without the radio. I like walking to the gym in the morning when it’s dark and quiet and the only thing I can hear are the footsteps of all the other people heading to the same place.
I like a distant hum of sound. Lawn movers at a house, two properties over. Cars swishing through puddles in the rain. People clicking away at their keyboards.
I don’t like it when people speak loudly. I don’t like it when my microwave, car and washing machine beep repetitively. They’re trying to tell me something with all their beeping. I wish they’d whisper instead.
This world we live in is a noisy place. But the silence, it’s so refreshing. And it makes me feel calm. Peaceful. Like there is snow inside my mind.
Shhh.
The random musings of Neen 
our friendship must exist because of the adage ‘opposites attract’!
however occasionally I’ll have moments like this (usually driving in silence) where I get sensory overload and need some peace to reset, but the only think I like doing in silence is exercising outdoors without music or talking, although thats mostly so I can (silently) talk to myself!
great post though Neen, you’re words are beautifully strung together :)
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