Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Noise

Growing up in a family with 5 brothers and sisters makes for a lot of noise. Someone is playing a video game, someone is arguing, someone is singing, someone is always doing something that makes noise. Culminate it all together and it makes for a loud house. Not all of my siblings live at home anymore but it doesn't seem to help the noise level. The quietest time of the day for me(and probably one of my favorite) is when I get up around 7. I have about an hour or two before the rest of the house gets up. Then it's off to work where I listen to music and people talking for several hours. I always have music on in the car and when I get home music is generally playing in the kitchen. It is weird visiting someone's house that is quiet and I'm not always sure what to do with myself. Noise fills the air in my world and rarely is their a moment of piece and quiet. I don't always mind that but sometimes I crave it. Maybe that's why I love having my own room. It is a place to get away from the noise and the world. Noise is an interesting thing...

1 comment:

tim said...

It drives me crazy when an evening rolls around and I don't have any plans, leaving me to fend for myself at home. (The other people who live here are really quiet and not very interactive.) I never know what to do with myself and I never get anything productive done. That kind of quiet drives me crazy.

There is a kind of quiet I love, though. It's the quiet that I actively seek, when I'm trying to get away from the world. It's the quiet I find on walks alone, ideally in the park. But sometimes it's just intentional time with God, distractions deliberately put away.