If you were to compare the silence of a library, to the silence of a church service, what would you determine? What about the silence underwater, to the silence of your bedroom at night? I'm trying to discover what the differences of the place, can do to the quietness.
Imagine the stillness and quietness of a library, what pops up in your head when you think of this? I think of solemn, and earnestness about reading and studying. So I guess you could say the silence of a library would be described (in my opinion)as a feeling of exploration in a quiet sort of way. Now, let's compare that to the silence of night-time when you're in bed and it's dark and you can only see vague shapes in the room. Some people would say that that's a lonely silence, without the sight of everyday things that you would see in your room otherwise. I actually think that when imagine that quietness all around me in the dark I get a sense of peaceful, thoughtfulness. I think the reason why is because just being there in the dark without any distractions helps one think ya know?
Okay next on the list of 'silent situations' would have to be... ...Underwater! that's a good one. When you're under water you obviously can't stay there for too too long, unless you're snorkeling. Underwater there's a sense of adventure, exploration, and while there could be nice calm serenity, there could also be, as I said, adventure! Now, I've never had much experience in oceans, and not lakes or anything of that sort either! I would have to say that most of the times (or almost all of the times) I've been underwater would be in a swimming pool, specifically in our backyard. So to sum up the way to describe underwater silence would have to be a oxymoron: adventuress silence that can turn out to be calm and relaxing.
The last type of silence that I'm gonna go through would have to be the silence of a church service. This needs a lot of thinking in my perception because of the many different feelings you get when you listen to the pastor preach. You can get peace through God's message, and you can also get in that little spot where you just feel God 'tapping you on the head' telling you to "listen up: this is what I want YOU to do." So in a nutshell, though there are many, MANY different ways to explain the silence of a church sermon I'd have to say that one of the more common ways of doing that explaining would be to say that through the silence, there's no silence at all! It's God trying to whisper to your heart.
Thanks for reading! (This was really one of my school projects)
I'd like to know what your thoughts on silence are, so please PLEASE post a comment!!!
- A.Lover
