Silence

I'm sure you've heard the saying "a picture is worth a thousand words" and even though I believe this, there is a lot you can take from just one picture, I also a believe there is a time not to speak at all. A time just to be silent. Not like pictures talk, but people talk about pictures. People talk about everything. Sometimes I wish they would just let the thing speak for itself. Some things shouldn't be interpreted just experienced. I think people don't experience life they show it off; trying to replicate the reality shows they see on TV or live that perfect fairytale they watched in a Disney movie. They try so hard to be perfect, successful, and beautiful that they forget the point. They forget to live. As much as I like them, life isn't like a movie. Life has dull moments, awesome moments, and just down right confusing moments. Life doesn't always have a happily ever after ending. This sounds cynical, you may think, but I'd say it's just realistic. If you stop trying to live a "picture perfect" life then you might actually start to enjoy the only life you have been given. And if everyone is talking then who the HELL is LISTENING? I don't know about you but when I have something to say I'd like someone to actually hear it, not just sorta hear it, or be half listening like you do in a boring class, but really listening. My boyfriend ,Sean, and I talk on the phone often. We talk for hours on end about everything. I would be lying though if I said that many minutes of those phone calls weren't spent in silence, because they are. It's not a bad silence but a silence none the less. A silence trying to convey love, a thinking silence, or a silence full of deep breathes with the phones tightly clenched to our ears trying to convey that even over the 1,470 miles of mostly empty space between us that we are there for each other, that we care, and that NOTHING could EVER change that. In this time we don't need words because there is just some things words can't say. I would also be lying if I said I didn't talk a lot. Sometimes I have to put my hand over my mouth to physically stop myself from uttering words I will later regret. Sean, on the other hand, uses his words wisely. So I know when he chooses to speak, he really means it, and even if I disagree with what he says I respectfully agree to disagree. So, be still, be quiet, and listen because you might find out some interesting things from the people who could never get a word in edge wise before. That's all for now, until next time catch you on the flip side.