Be quiet
This is pretty much a random rant about my thoughts. Be warned.
Today I was at work cutting veggies and prepping food for the coming day like I do every day. Nothing unusual. For some odd reason I started hearing chanting. Gregorian chanting. At first I thought that the radio had been turned on and it was a bit of some commercial for cell phone service or auto insurance but then I noticed no one else was paying any attention to it. I turned to one of my co-workers, Nephi, and I asked him if he heard chanting. He said no. Odd. Well, that set me off into a strange spiritual mood. I started thinking about two very different things and they eventually merged into one. Silence, on the one hand, simply because of my earlier confusion whether or not there was any music playing, and the Virginia Tech shootings, because of a threat my school received a couple days ago after the killings. Now, I am sure that anyone who has taken the time to read thus far is a bit confused as to how these two things are connected. To me, it makes perfect sense. We like noise. We can't stand the silence. When it's quiet, you are stuck by yourself. Alone with yourself and no one else... and some of us don't like ourselves. What happens when you go so long with taking a time to breathe a while and listening to the whispers of your soul telling you who you are? Virginia Tech happens. And it's a very sad thing.
I think I'm taking a retreat in a couple weeks to the monastery.
Today I was at work cutting veggies and prepping food for the coming day like I do every day. Nothing unusual. For some odd reason I started hearing chanting. Gregorian chanting. At first I thought that the radio had been turned on and it was a bit of some commercial for cell phone service or auto insurance but then I noticed no one else was paying any attention to it. I turned to one of my co-workers, Nephi, and I asked him if he heard chanting. He said no. Odd. Well, that set me off into a strange spiritual mood. I started thinking about two very different things and they eventually merged into one. Silence, on the one hand, simply because of my earlier confusion whether or not there was any music playing, and the Virginia Tech shootings, because of a threat my school received a couple days ago after the killings. Now, I am sure that anyone who has taken the time to read thus far is a bit confused as to how these two things are connected. To me, it makes perfect sense. We like noise. We can't stand the silence. When it's quiet, you are stuck by yourself. Alone with yourself and no one else... and some of us don't like ourselves. What happens when you go so long with taking a time to breathe a while and listening to the whispers of your soul telling you who you are? Virginia Tech happens. And it's a very sad thing.
I think I'm taking a retreat in a couple weeks to the monastery.
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