Silence of the Tune

Adobe Firefly

It’s five minutes to five on a Friday afternoon and I left my phone in the bedroom across from the office. And I’m more than certain 15 people have been trying to call me since I sat down. For some reason it never fails when I shut the door to this room and leave my phone in another room, it will go off. A text, a phone call, it doesn’t matter. It could be my children or a doctor’s office it never fails that they need an answer at that exact moment. But when I call or text one of them, they never answer till the next day.

That’s how life appears to happen most of the time. You settle down to get something done and Bam! Some interruption from out of left field comes and slaps your brain with a… What? And they get angry because you have the audacity to get mad at them for disturbing you. I know, it happens every day. But now I sit here on this quiet afternoon on this quiet day, thinking to myself about getting interrupted. Excuse me for laughing at myself. But isn’t that the way our twisted brains think about things, waiting for the next shoe to drop.

I guess I’m writing all this general nonsense to say, with each deep breath life doesn’t have to be this way. Even with my wife’s newest obsession “Bob’s Burgers” blaring through the walls. I’ve gotten so used to it that it just becomes part of the background noise. But it’s that need for background noise that becomes so apparent isn’t it? If we can only relearn to silent our minds of all the background noise we allow ourselves to hear. What prospective we could gain? But why listen to me? I’m just a rambling voice in the evening light keeping you away from the eventual showtune that plays at the end of the show. Just don’t let yourself be captivated by all the song and dance, and listen to the silence of the tune.  

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