“Do you hear it?” I ask, my voice a whisper.
“Hear what?”
“How quiet the world is right now.” I say. “Do you hear the stillness and the softness around us? Do you hear this moment.”
The silence is what makes this moment so beautiful to me. I’m here, really here. I’m not distracted by traffic or music or voices. I don’t hear machinery or the television or the phone. In this moment is only me. My breath. Myself. As I sit here, my other senses are heightened without the distraction of sound. My bare feet press against the wood floor. I bite my bottom lip. A sweet scented candle burns at the edge of my desk. The fan breathes over the room. But above all is the silence that sits over me. It’s a blanket I don’t want to climb out of.
Taking time to slow down and write my Inspirations in my journal is teaching me to re-appreciate the quiet. It’s this appreciation that makes me realize how necessary it truly is. I need to welcome the silence back into my life so that I can reflect, recharge, refill my reserves. Lately, I’ve thought that taking quiet time made me selfish, I worried that my kids my need me or something else would happen I couldn’t miss. But in these 30 Days, I’ve made myself stop to think, forced silence on myself. And I’m calmer, slower, and better prepared to tackle the obstacles I’m facing because of it. I’m welcoming the silence now, craving it practically.
“So, do you hear it now?” I ask.
And you nod, because you don’t want to shatter what you hear with your voice.
My favorite Life Pulp Inspiration for today is this one, posted by Spyrose.
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