Echoes
Chihiroh
Hello beloved ePlayers !
Do you still remember me? I’m not publishing lots of articles, but I do hope you appreciate the few I’ve brought up. 🙂
Today, I’m in a calm mood. I hope you also can access to such feeling every once in a while. I find it particularly relaxing, so I’ll play a song to help you that way.
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I do hope you don’t have any annoying noise around you, it might make it difficult to listen properly to the song I proposed you. But when we think about it, it’s not the noise that disrupts it, but the annoyance it creates in your mind. You can find yourself actually assimilating the sounds that surround you. Some are more difficult to assimilate than others. Some require your attention, some fear nothing more than getting it. For some you will need to dissecate them into different, more basic sounds to fully understand it. You better not concentrate on others, because you would rapidly find that its sound parts are actually quite basic, but that it was their combination that made them magic and that all you had to do was to sit back and enjoy.
The song I am talking about is indeed the sound of silence, or the absence of sound. 🙂
I think it is the most powerful sound, as it can make any human being, regardless of his culture, personality or physiology, shed tears of joy and tears of sadness. But silence is also the most silent of sounds, the complete absence of it. One may argue that therefore, any noise, any other sound spoils silence. But what I experience is that once you assimilated a certain sound, once you accepted its nature and its value, once you made yourself a clear idea of what it represents to you, it ends up echoing, reinforcing the silence itself.
Noise that reinforces its absence…strange paradox, don’t you find?
Is it real or is it a trick of the mind?
Or maybe both?
I can only speculate.
- Chihiroh
Comments
Silence is like a music to me. Calm and relaxing.
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Silence............
It's a curious thing!
.....or is it?
Hahah, you got it 😃
What did I tell you about smoking illegal substances !
"Quit smoking, diversify a bit. Like I don't know, swallow a pill, put it up your arse, ..." ?
Enjoy the silence...
Good article btw, voted.
Very nice Depeche Mode song !
Exactly.
voted
What about trees falling sound??
I agree that silence is a nice feeling.
But when you say "But silence is also the most silent of sounds"... No no no !
As "silence" is "the absence of sound", you canno't technically define "silence" as a "sound". It would be like calling an "apple" the "absence of apple".
As well as we it is a mistake to say that we hear the silence. Silence canno't technically be heard.
That is called artistic freedom 🙂
quantumphysics have shown that there is no such thing as "silence"
/discussion.
True, but I guess it could exist at the absolute zero right?
I think this is something to be viewed from the perspective of philosophy and psychology.
And not about the physics.
You may have noticed that the subject is mostly shown or talked about as an abstract matter. If we keep it in the world of facts, physics, matter, the tangible world...
Then, yes, silence does not exist except in the psyche of the beholder.
Exactly, it's about subjectivity. I'm not talking in scientific terms of silence, but of how we experience the silence. But hey, if I made an interesting discussion start about silence, I'm glad 😁
Quantum physics have shown that our certainties and theories are quite often shaken few decades later.
Who are you 😮 😛
A random stranger, but I'll hug you anyway 😁
hugs from a stranger \o/
That's true, I really like when you don't speak/write anything... I like 🙂
Still mad at me? 😛
Shhhhhhh, I want silence!
I'm sorry my dear but it just seems like you will be forced to assimilate the sound of my voice 😁
Oh, if it just seems... And no, technically no, I don't need it 🙂
I can live without you, don't worry ❤
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