Meaning of Silence

Ever wondered what life would be like without sound? What would it be like to have absolutely no sense of hearing? Pause for a minute and think. How important is your sense of hearing?

Then, slow down and listen. What do you hear? What is it that your ears are telling you? What is the world screaming out to you?

A myriad of sounds and dronings that never stop. Ever-flowing, ever-buzzing and ever-changing. Be it upon the roadside during peak hours of traffic, or under star-light, by the beach. From the droning of car engines and blaring horns to the still quiet shuffling of the waves upon the sand.

What if there was no sound? What if, all you heard, was a deathly empty silence that was beyond description? No low buzzing sound, no shrill humming, not even the beat of your heart and the soft sound of the pen writing upon the pad. What if, there was silence?

Not a spoken word. Just a silent play of images. Living a life of total, absolute silence. Seeing the world in new light. The light of a deaf man. Try reliving a single day of your life without sound. What would it be like?

Few among us appreciate the sounds we hear. A child's cries, a mother's tears, tweeting of birds and the buzzing of bees. Once it all disappears, how would you feel? Would you enjoy the silence? What will you see?

See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...we need silence to be able to touch souls.- Mother Teresa