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Chilling
The weather out here today is warm and muggy and a little rainy right now, which feels nice outside (yes, one of my eccentricities is that I like when it's hot and steamy) but inside, with the AC, the moisture has become a chill of the kind that sucks the warmth right from one's bones. So I'm currently enjoying the fact that I've got a nice fuzzy jacket and plenty of tea stocked up ;)
Everything seems quieter on days like this, which is really ironic, because actually when the humidity is high the air is more dense and sound is able to travel farther. It's interesting to me to notice this, because I've also noticed that I've been noticing silence a lot more just in general lately (like taking pictures of people taking pictures of people...) The funny thing is, it's not really silence that I'm noticing. I can be on a crowded Metro train in the evening when everybody is going out on the town and their conversations are loud all around me, but it's like I've got a little corner of silence where I'm sitting. Or at home, by myself, my computer whirring along and the sounds of traffic outside because I've got the windows open to let in a little breeze, I'll get this feeling, briefly, that there's some sort of shell around me, and all those noises are happening outside the shell, but inside that shell it's quiet. It's weird.
It's also kind of neat, because it's also like, I don't know how to describe it really, a buffer of some sort. It has a reassuring quality to it; anytime I look (listen?) for it now, I can find it. That buffer, that reassurance, feels like regardless of how chaotic and noisy the outside world gets, I'll still be able to have that little corner of silence and calm that's always there, always just behind the noise.
Everything seems quieter on days like this, which is really ironic, because actually when the humidity is high the air is more dense and sound is able to travel farther. It's interesting to me to notice this, because I've also noticed that I've been noticing silence a lot more just in general lately (like taking pictures of people taking pictures of people...) The funny thing is, it's not really silence that I'm noticing. I can be on a crowded Metro train in the evening when everybody is going out on the town and their conversations are loud all around me, but it's like I've got a little corner of silence where I'm sitting. Or at home, by myself, my computer whirring along and the sounds of traffic outside because I've got the windows open to let in a little breeze, I'll get this feeling, briefly, that there's some sort of shell around me, and all those noises are happening outside the shell, but inside that shell it's quiet. It's weird.
It's also kind of neat, because it's also like, I don't know how to describe it really, a buffer of some sort. It has a reassuring quality to it; anytime I look (listen?) for it now, I can find it. That buffer, that reassurance, feels like regardless of how chaotic and noisy the outside world gets, I'll still be able to have that little corner of silence and calm that's always there, always just behind the noise.