Do you ever listen to those non-sounds you hear? Imagine one of those rare times when all is completely quiet, you're all alone, no air conditioner rattling in your house, no birds chirping, no neighbor blaring their less-than-ideal music. Not a sound that you can put your finger on, if that were even possible. Seemingly utter silence. You don't realize you're hearing anything. But I think about the film crew on Milam, that twisty street I never remember the name of by the river, the factory you can see from downtown, the trains... I'm sure that we're not hearing nothing. Rather a none too small collection of somethings. If all of those things suddenly stopped, don't you think it would sound different? What does absolute silence even sound like? And what is it that we actually hear when we think we're hearing nothing? When we think we're hearing silence, I imagine we're hearing hundreds of different sounds that add up into the low hum of some frequency we didn't even notice. But it's there. It's mind boggling how much goes on around us without our even knowing. Absolute silence must be almost frightening.
Bucket List Entries
- Finish my scarf.
- Sky dive!!!!! (I know I've probably already said this on here, but this is the OFFICIAL entry.)
- "Chew someone out" successfully. (This really shouldn't be on any normal person's bucket list, but I think that, for me, it would actually be a good character trait to have- having the balls to say something when it needs to be said and following through with it.)
- Give blood and plasma.
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