The Beauty of Silence
Photo by Milan Popovic on Unsplash I'll be honest, I talk... A lot. If you know me on a personal level, you know I can talk for hours on end. I love words, conversation, dialogue, expression, music, comedy, TV shows, and podcasts - in short, anything with a pitch. It has been partly this, coupled with my eagerness to learn, learn and learn some more that often leads me to be surrounded by a string of sounds, words, voices, and ideas. A string that often leaves me more saturated, confused and overwhelmed than anything else. Like with everything else in our lives, the noise was magnified during the pandemic. Staying at home meant Zoom meetings, background music to work, lunchtime conversations with my roommate, Skype dates with family and friends, endless streaming, tweeting, posting, sharing, reading, analyzing, conversing, writing, and of course, TikTok. Everything but stopping. Post after post I read people saying how this would be a great time to relax, re-calibrate, and r