The sound of silence

[dragonflysik]

We overwhelm ourselves with all kinds of noise. Radio, TV, music, talking, laughing, moving vehicles etc. Whenever we are alone in a room we can't help switching on the TV or turning on the radio. Though we may not be really watching it or listening. Any sound will do. As long as we would not be attacked by the scary silence. We can't stand silence

Comments

[neuy]

i am afraid of silence. in silence i hear trickling noises from the corner of my room/mind/cranium/universe, and i would intentionally knock the chair or the book against the wall, trying to exorcise this uneasiness, or i would hum, or i would hum, or i would hum;

[dragonflysik]

i guess, the person we find it most difficult to be with is we ourselves... yet in our interactions with others in life how much we yearn for asserting ourselves. ironic.

[neuy]

like how the weak always holler the loudest, the empty vessels which reverberate the clearest their emptiness;

[dragonflysik]

heard the song 'the sound of silence' by simon & garfunkel? in there, the sound of silence was given a different meaning which is meaningful (is there problem with this sentence? ahaha)
a part of the lyrics:
People talking without speaking,
People hearing without listening,
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one deared
Disturb the sound of silence.