silence.

We're a culture afraid of silence and stillness.

There's always something to distract us. Music playing, phone buzzing, book open, computer on 500 different tabs, food being eaten friends and family to talk to, we're constantly communicating or doing something. "I'm busy!" you say. You might be busy, you probably are. But even as we go to sleep, we have something to keep us distracted. We're terrified. Scared of the quiet that surrounds us, and the thoughts that lie there, waiting to pounce on us and torture us and drive us insane. So we cover them, bury them deeper and deeper, never facing them, with the constant motion and distractions.

You can't be afraid of thoughts. Face them. Accept the truths you keep trying to suffocate and deal with them, otherwise your life is a lie.


And that is more terrifying than any amount of silence.

love,
hanhan ;3