Outside the home in a non musical setting I prefer silence or very low enjoyable ( to me lol) background music . That’s rare though since you don’t control the selection .
At home while doing projects or things around the house I prefer some tunes but I am in complete control of that .
A strange story about noise or really the lack there of that I experienced a few years back .
While hunting northern Maine near the Canadian border , I experienced something that has NEVER happened until that day or since .
I started out my morning heading into the woods early about half hour before sunrise to get settled in for the day . Weather report was for overcast skies and periods of brief clouded sun , 35 degrees or so and a 3 mph wind with no gusts . I DID notice it was as quiet as I’d ever remembered it being in any woods anywhere of hundreds of days spent afield except for some crunching under foot .
In my stand and settled , night turned to day , a few birds were chirping and a couple of rustlings in the leaves the first hour . I remember thinking , this is amazing , I’ve never heard it so quiet in all my life .
One more hour goes by ( about 8 am ) and I notice NO sound whatsoever, and I mean NONE ! Again , pretty cool and I was enjoying the calm, still, and silence of the morning as it’s relaxing and you may possibly hear game approaching . Not a chirping bird , rustling leaves , no wind no hum of logging machinery off in the distance and as it’s a wilderness area no people, houses, roads or the like , none of the associated sounds as you might hear ( however distant) in many other forested areas , no matter how quiet you may THINK it is . There’s relative quiet , which is pretty damned quiet and mostly what I and most of us experience as it relates to “virtually “ no noise ,….. and then there was this day …..
COMPLETE QUIET and stillness.
By 10 am I was rubbing two fingers next to each ear because I literally thought something had happened to my hearing . It became so maddening by 11 am I wanted to stand up and yell lol and at times my ears would ring for a few seconds . I love when it’s quiet and still while afield but I came to realize on that day that it’s relative quietness that is enjoyable and this was something different and a kind of like you had to be there and experience it to truly get it . Don’t get me wrong , it was an amazing experience and pretty cool to have had that happen , but it’s not the kind of quiet I would want all the time and I remember thinking feeling terrible for those who had lost all hearing after having it their whole life . I learned the true meaning of two sayings that day ………
Be careful what you wish for , you might just get it ! And …
Silence ( pure silence) is deafening !
Never realized the difference between quiet and QUIET
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Not as profound as the silence thing but ( in Maine) also , was the first time I experienced what REAL darkness was while still having my eyes open . Literally COULD not se my hand an inch from my face or the person standing next to me in the dark of the forest one night after sundown with no moon or stars out under complete cloud cover .
I’ve come to really appreciate and take care of my hearing and eyesight .
But yeah , mostly, …..depending on environment and or circumstance, I prefer quiet. Or is peace a better description
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