Normally I live here with my earbuds in - a life set to music.
This begins early on in the morning. After I manage to talk myself out of bed and roll up the curtain, I put my glasses on and my earbuds in. Typically they stay in until it's time for class and are replaced soon after class ends. I finally take them out for the night right after my nightly YouTube movie.
Often I've thought to myself that living like this might not be the best idea because it may seem to make me somewhat unapproachable in the kitchen or in the hallways, but walking the sidewalks without music to step in time to seems impossible to me. Besides, I am used to living in my own world and people have a way of breaking in regardless. So I continue to live like this and I will gladly take whatever negative consequences may arise from this.
Today though I decided to go a day unplugged. So I didn't put my earbuds in this morning as I ate breakfast and I didn't have them in all those times I brewed my tea.
It felt strange living like this. And yet I noticed things that otherwise would have gone unnoticed like the sound of pies chasing crows and the wind through the trees. I decided to sit like this for a while in my room with the window open and a mug of tea and a book in my hands - just listening for a while, letting the quiet seep into my bones.
A friend of mine jokes to me occasionally that I spend most of my life on the sidelines watching other people live. I always laugh at this but remember that half of what people say in jest is just a veiled truth. This is a truth.
This begins early on in the morning. After I manage to talk myself out of bed and roll up the curtain, I put my glasses on and my earbuds in. Typically they stay in until it's time for class and are replaced soon after class ends. I finally take them out for the night right after my nightly YouTube movie.
Often I've thought to myself that living like this might not be the best idea because it may seem to make me somewhat unapproachable in the kitchen or in the hallways, but walking the sidewalks without music to step in time to seems impossible to me. Besides, I am used to living in my own world and people have a way of breaking in regardless. So I continue to live like this and I will gladly take whatever negative consequences may arise from this.
Today though I decided to go a day unplugged. So I didn't put my earbuds in this morning as I ate breakfast and I didn't have them in all those times I brewed my tea.
It felt strange living like this. And yet I noticed things that otherwise would have gone unnoticed like the sound of pies chasing crows and the wind through the trees. I decided to sit like this for a while in my room with the window open and a mug of tea and a book in my hands - just listening for a while, letting the quiet seep into my bones.
A friend of mine jokes to me occasionally that I spend most of my life on the sidelines watching other people live. I always laugh at this but remember that half of what people say in jest is just a veiled truth. This is a truth.
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