Quiet Time!

I'm going to be having a quiet day soon. I won't do any talking, outside of when I am directly asked a question by a professor (or other mandatory encounters of the like). I probably will take another break from Facebook that day as well, for the reasons listed on my previous blog about saying goodbye to that world.

I'm doing this for two main reasons. One, I feel that people are overly dependent on talking in their every day lives. Most of conversation is unnecessary; it is primarily a bunch of filler conversation because, in general, people in this day are really uncomfortable with silence. Silence is almost always described as "awkward," but I really don't think it has to be that way. I think it becomes awkward because people make it that way, but there is really nothing wrong with it. It just means there is nothing of big importance that needs to be said. It doesn't have to imply that someone is mad at someone else, or annoyed...it doesn't have to mean that someone is too bitchy, or too good to talk to someone else...it really doesn't mean anything at all!

Reason number two is, I am guilty of sometimes talking a lot. I consider myself to be a good listener as well, but sometimes I wonder what I may be missing from other people because I'm so busy thinking about the next thing I'm about to say, or even sometimes just plain talking over people. So I just want to listen better; if I don't allow myself to talk, listening will be all that I can do and maybe I'll learn something new. Maybe I'll realize something interesting that I never knew before about a person. I don't really know what to expect yet. Maybe I'll realize some of what I tend to say really doesn't always need to be said.

I think I'll do it a week from today. And maybe a few more times in the months after that. Depending on how the first few go. I'll write about it of course. :)