Enjoy the silence
What is the silence? It’s just the lack of noise, or something more?
I was wondering whether silence could mean absence or not. Personally, I believe that silence is something more, capable to have several meanings. Recently, I have realized that most of the people that I admire the most, are all capable to use the silence when it is appropriate. Today it’s like if everybody can’t loose the opportunity to judge or to express an opinion: we need to explain everything, even the stuff that should be understood in a more delicate way. Being silent, when appropriate, means to have a greater respect of all the situations and things in general. Exempting ourselves from judging by choosing the path of silence is a demonstration of maturity. Not everything can be said using words.
Most of the times, a conversation is more authentic when eyes are talking more than words do and we can perceive what the other person is feeling right now; most of the big memories are wordless, because happiness is not a matter of words, happiness is a matter of spontaneous feelings as if there is an explosion of humanity verbally impossible to express. Words are like clothes: we spend a lot of efforts and money for them, but after, the best moments of our life are experienced without.
“The music is not in the notes,
but in the silence between.”
― Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Another aspect of silence is the calm. Calmness as an interior attitude, which is something that leads to a major awareness of ourselves. The great beauties all around us, don’t ask for attention, they are silent. I am thinking about a beautiful landscape, a beautiful person, a beautiful detail… I want to repeat again: Beautiful things don’t ask for attention. It’s all about the sensibility of one another, through silence, through passion, through empathy to understand and appreciating what we are perceiving. We should not escape from silence, instead of trying to cover it with all the possible words and noises.
Head picture by ClickFlashPhotos / Nicki Varkevisser
Written by Davide La Rocca
