One Apple A Day #701 - it's all quiet outside
I'm getting used to the silence in the morning.
Even here, in a small town, the noise used to begin quite early in the day.
It wasn't only traffic. There was a kind of buzz in the background, the sound created by hundreds of families waking up for their duties, work or school.
Now it's all silence. Not only in the morning.
It's quiet and silent all day.
Now I can hear the birds singing all day, the dogs barking in the distance, the wind howling through the trees.
It is as if nature whispers, so only when we stay quiet, we can hear her voice.
Yet, I think we need that noise.
The sound of humanity.
So. we moved that noise inside.
Inside our homes, for sure, but mostly inside our screens.
Between video calls, webinars, social media, streaming, news and everything else, our screens are now incredibly crowded.
I wonder why.
Maybe because in silence, we can hear our thoughts, our hopes, but also our fears.