Silence

In addition to my journal entry, I wanted to connect a few other important things in my life to my reflection on the green. First, is another one of my favorite songs that reminds me of the process of reflection. 

'Silent Way' by Milo Greene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDeWUYxZVHA

In this song, Milo Greene repeats the chorus: when I'm older/ can I still come over?

Now, this of course acts as a romantic sentiment, but I also see a connection between this lyric and what I reflected to be a reason for our fear of silence. I think we are fundamentally afraid of change- especially change that is not obvious or predicted for us. I have had many key transitional moments in my life exposed in periods of silence- whether those be conclusions I have reached through self-reflection or those moments of silence after something immense has been said between two people. I think at the end of the day, we avoid silence and thus the unexpected potential for great change, because at our simplest bases, we just want to know that after everything pieces of ourselves will thrive through the change. We simply want to know that when we are older- after much silence has been heard or felt or thought or shared- that we will still be whole enough to 'come over'. 

I'd also like to connect this reflection to another blog post I wrote while abroad (I know I've been sharing a lot from my other writing, but I have loved being able to read and then reconnect pieces of my old self and my old reflections to this new coursework). This is a piece I wrote on empathy, and I think some of the fears I expressed about silence are also present in my worry over the existence of empathy. 

http://de-pompingthecircumstance.blogspot.com/2015/01/tea.html

Thank you!