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This is a typical Monday-Friday in my life this semester. It is pretty much non-stop.
I am constantly moving from one thing to another. If I'm not at work, I'm in class or doing homework. Don't forget to add household commitments! There is also keeping up with life in the apartment, and the consistent urge to hang out and socialize.
Spare time?
What is that?
I guess when I have it I fill up my spare time with activities. That new drawing I wanted to work on. Practicing singing that new song. Running, running, running.
Almost everything thing I do, I do to music. I do homework to music. I listen to music as I drive the work truck around campus. I sing in the shower. I listen to music while I draw. I clean to music. I run to music. I'm listening to music as I write this blog post.
Noise.
Noise.
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Noise.
I fill my life with so much noise, so much chaos, and so much stuff. Why? Well I enjoy it. I love to listen to some blink-182, some System of a Down, All American Rejects, Green Day, The Benjy Davis Project, The Format, Modest Mouse, Sara Bareilles, Michael Buble, Rise Against, Sum 41, The Academy is...
Noise.
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SHHHHHHHHHHH. Quiet is good too!
It took a little while for me to figure it out. What I could do to make my life seem a little less busy. Every now and then, I just have to be quiet. I just need to take some time and sit in silence (well I mean I live with other people so probably just quiet and not silence). I just need to give my ears a break. I need to give my mind a second to process. Take a break, just sit there, and think.
I never really knew the value of quiet. I come from a large family. Quiet usually means that something is broken or someone is broken. Quiet means something is wrong. I've come to learn that as an adult, quiet is a beautiful thing, it is personal time. It is thoughts no one can take away. It is a second to breathe!
try it. Stop what you are doing, yes stop reading this post right now. pause that music. put your phone away. just sit there. Enjoy a second to yourself.
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How was it? do you feel better now? Maybe a little more relaxed? It's pleasant isn't it? you don't have someone else's thoughts being pumped into your mind. You can just focus on you, your thoughts, your needs, and your time. It's good right?
I wrote a post kind of like this on good friday. I took the whole day to just be quiet. Eventually I started writing and this is what I came up with:
ReplyDelete"Just as Adam knew God alone in the solitude of Eden, so must we know him in the solitude of pure and penitent hearts. Retract your mind from the world and all of its technologies, for we are not of the world, but of God and His resurrected world to come. The world as it is now sets its will against us and seeks to break and batter us upon the sands of death. So in return, we must set our will to stone: God and his holy Righteousness. In quiet solitude, away from the cares of the material world, we can allow ourselves to transcend worldly wants and fears and give ourselves truly to God the Father."
Not exactly what you were talking about but the other side of the same coin I'm pretty sure. Great post :)
No, not exactly what I was talking about, but pretty dang close. I like what you wrote, it's like the religious side of what I wrote. I think to get to the point you were at when you wrote this a little bit more than just 10 seconds of quite would be involved :p I just forget how important it is to have quiet sometimes!
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