In a world full of noise and impulses, whether online or offline, silence has almost become a luxurious good. We have to be everywhere and nowhere at the same time, check out what the rest is doing via social media, like as much as possible and always have something interesting to say.

Last weekend I had a really interesting conversation about the fact that our lives changed so suddenly (I do sound like a grandma right now but whatever). When I was 14 there were hardly cellphones, we had the Nokia 5110 but it looked more like a remote than an actual phone. Surfing the internet was possible but it went really really slow, there were nu such things as Facebook, Instagram and I won’t even start talking about Snapchat. If I wanted to text my boyfriend I had to grab my dad’s phone (can you imagine) or even worse: call his parent’s place and just hope I’d be able to distinguish his voice from his father’s. Let me just spare you all the embarrassing situations that occurred 😉

Anyways, what I wanted to say is that this actually explains why I’ve been feeling stressed about nothing lately. There are just so many sensations coming from the outside world that I actually have to go and hide at my parent’s place and put my phone on airplane mode to get some actual rest. When I think about holidays an interesting citytrip isn’t even top of mind, I’d rather book an all-in to a silent place without tourists so I can just sleep, read and enjoy the sounds of nature. You can’t imagine (or you can) how much I enjoy being surrounded by silence!

Since I don’t really live in a silent environment I’m becoming very good at creating silence in my head. Sometimes I’m mentally very very far away just to be able to begin with a clean slate afterwards. For me this is a “necessary evil” to remain creative and loyal to myself!

 

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