You know how the song goes. …It’s oh so still. Shhh. Well it’s a bit quiet our lives at the moment. We go to work, we snuggle on the couch, we sleep and start the day again. It’s nice actually. We’ve had a few big weekends in a row. There’s nothing like being at home to restore yourself. It’s been a great. Hubby and I have been taking stock, making plans and generally basking in our collective awesome. the quiet has done me good.
You know what’s not quiet though?
Speakers with bulk bass.
Where I work sits at an intersection with traffic lights. Pretty much every day is a car or two with stereo cranked so loudly that the bass vibrates our glass. TWO a day, every week day {at least}. Can you imagine That’s a lot of future deaf people. Gosh I hope there’s some overlap there. Fingers crossed it’s the same guy doing laps everyday and there’s not a pending influx of people requiring hearing services from overexposure to bass.
Not me. I prefer the quiet.
Often, almost always, I drive to work with the radio off. The quiet of the car, just me and my thoughts calms me. I like to be alone sometimes. I like the chance to block out the noise of people and just take time. It’s very hippy dippy to some of you, I’m sure. But quiet is sort of essential for me. It makes me consider that perhaps all these years I’ve been misdiagnosed as an extrovert perhaps in fact I am an introvert with outgoing tendencies… They say that introverts darn energy from being able to take time out and be alone. That’s certainly me.
These are the things I think about sometimes. What do you think about sometimes?
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I must have noise. I only just realised it, but you got me thinking… I always have the car radio on. If I’m home, the tv is on. If I’m on the computer, I’m playing music. Hmm. Now it’s becoming clear why I notice the quiet when I visit my mum in the country – it’s not only the lack of city background noise (cars, dogs, people), it’s the lack of music and telly every waking moment!
It absolutely would be. Sleeping at Liv’s house in the city I was amazed by the hum of noise, but then it just stops, like finally everyone went to bed. So I blame the tv and radio too. 😉
I wish I could turn the car radio on loud. For one, it broke about four years ago and I haven’t gotten around to replacing it yet. Second, whenever anything in the car goes above a whisper, Mr. Four in the back yells at me. We do all car rides in silence…complete silence.
Haha. Oh dear. But I did have a little giggle at this one. Mr. 4 = bossy cute!
I love the still and the quiet. Children does that to you, I think. Recently, I’ve thought that I don’t listen to enough music, so my iTunes gets played more than usual. But I still love peace. x
I think anyone who is busy or surrounded by noise in some way will crave quiet. Well, that’s my theory anyway. I’ve been turning on my itunes playlist at home lately, it’s a nice change to the hum of my slowing dying laptop.
I love quiet. I have a busy life, with a busy head and busy kids and it gets load. When I’m alone it’s often a day or a time for no radio, no TV, no noise. Just the noise of me going about my day pottering getting things. Sometimes it’s just the sound of me sitting reading nd my breath. It’s all a recharge time this quiet, it gives my mind mind space nd energy to run off in new inspired directions rather then bing bombarded thoughts and feelings arrive without pushing.
Ahhh, the sound of productivity, I love that sound.
When I drive I like having music in the background although I also use the time to think about so many thinks. Sometimes I sound smarter or wittier to myself on those rare moments of conversing with myself. Hehe.
Haha. Indeed. You and me both! I love music in the car mostly. It’s a pretty short morning drive for me though and sometimes all I can handle is silence.
cannot drive without the radio on. NEVER. either old person’s ABC radio or music………..I have music on whilst I work as well. ALWAYS.I even play a white noise app before I go to bed. So in short, not a fan of silence.
Does not do well with quiet places! Haha. Got it. That’s my worst nightmare though. HOW are we friends? HOW? 😉
I guess it’s true. Opposites attract…
Woot woo, that indeed!
Like quiet when i have a busy day. Sometimes all I need is five minutes.
As for the radio in the car, need to listen to my talk stations, often times I learn stuff that makes me think.
Absolutely. Five minutes can be all it takes. But I have to disagree with talk back, it may make me think, but it’s mostly about murdering someone! 😉