Decrypting the sound of silence

After a pretty long break, I am back to my blog. In the interval I have taken to return to my blog, much has happened; the world has witnessed the coming and going of an year - India has lost an away cricket Test series, yet again - and I am none the wiser (this would seem like a trite remark for those who know me) So, what was I doing in the mean time? What happened during this rather long period of silence?

To tell you the truth, I was enamored by a sudden urge to find out the sound of silence. While I was thus wondering aloud, a note struck me as rather obvious. It is said that the eye of the storm is as calm as a desert. I am just wondering if the converse is true. Have you ever had the feeling that a storm is raging inside you when you are quite calm and collected on the outside?

It is difficult to associate a tangible quality to a thing that is in its very true form, quite intangible. Some time back I witnessed a scene that got me thinking; I saw this poor kid who was looking at a piece of jewelry displayed at a showroom. Was he silently thinking about the degree of joy that piece of jewelry could bring to his mother? What was the sound of his hankering silence? Wouldn’t it have broken his heart that he wasn’t able to afford that piece of jewelry as a consequence of which, he was not able to make his mother happy?

Each one of us has gone through this deafening silence time and again. Is it true that we are silent when we secretly or not so secretly yearn for something that our heart desires, but due to some contextual constraints we are not able to obtain the object of our yearning? What is the sound of our silence then?

It is said that, nature has this unfailing ability to fill up spaces or vacuums. Don’t we all in our urge to close a vacuum, drown out the sound of silence when it touches our ears? Why do we do it? Is the sound of silence so hard that it forces us to ignore it?

I know not the sound of silence. But, I do know that it is deafening to uninitiated souls like mine. To some the sound of silence is like the musical notes of a nightingale. To some, the sound of silence is as noisy as a rock band. To me, the sound of silence looms largely before me like the full moon, yet I know not how to enjoy its beauty.

So, what is the sound of your silence?