Letters from the Silence – 20th February, 2014

Hear me all. For those who can’t, won’t hear me again. – Silence

It sounds weird to speak of myself, and not a word from the true author. If you aren’t convinced, please give me a chance to prove it to you. If you visit the About page on this blog, you’ll read the blunders created by the author. I realise now how he remains at the bottom of a stack of pages. From what he’s written about himself, he’s wasting his life shifting careers and opportunities that might be knocking at his doorstep. (Psst! Between both of us, I think he’s making a fool of himself. He’s a graduate in Mathematics, a postgraduate in Computer Applications. What work would you think he’d be doing at the moment? Don’t you think he’d be a researcher, professor, or a significant person in software development? Look at what he’s done. He’s into writing articles, poems, short stories, and planning to write novels too. Don’t you think he’s fooling you, or maybe, he wishes you to think of him that way?)

I may have contradicted myself speaking of this author’s blog. I think I’ve spoken more than enough. How about I speak about me? I’m sure I’d interest you with my life. Not just you, but the entire world. Given the opportunity to communicate with every creature on this planet, they’d even agree with me.

[A dog lives next door. He barked. I’ve always been close to him, since he was a cute little pup.]

I look out the window. And there he stands wagging his tail. My supposedly best friend I’ve ever had in years, since I came into this world. A grown up devil he’s become. He barks at every person he gets his eyes on. But I like it when he chases away stray cats on streets. (This author doesn’t like it. He invites them all and feeds them milk everyday. And when Fluffy, the dog’s name, comes over to chase the cats, he shoos the dog out of the way. I could’ve sworn to beat the hell out of him. He does exactly the opposite of what I like. At times, I feel like giving him hell for real.)

I won’t speak much, for he’d get mad after he’s read what I’ve mentioned out here. Especially when it’s his own blog site. He’s a person who loves silence. At times, he can’t tolerate the noise of traffic coming from faraway. From what I know, there are millions of people who live along the sides of streets, park benches, subways and bus stops. Varied noises surround these people. Public chatter, sound of cars, buses, rickshaws, bikes, oncoming trains, airplanes, police and ambulance sirens. Although the author lives at a distance, these sounds irritate him. Guess what, the sound of the pressure cooker which gives off steam in a neighbouring house irritates him while reading a book. And that’s why he always wishes to live in a silent neighbourhood.

Jokes apart now, I’m crazy you might think. Well? It’s true, to an extent. But I can assure you I can sometimes become mad as well. I do get mad at the author sometimes. He neither wishes me to speak with him, nor does he look forward to having to meet in the future. There was a time I was so depressed by his idea about him dumping me away. It’s been a long time now. He regularly makes me go away, tells me to shut up. He threatens to put tape over my mouth, or sew it up permanently. And so I take leave until he asks for my presence again.

[I walk into the room where the author sleeps. As I get closer, I see him move to his side while he’s asleep.]

I’m glad he’s sleeping. Only yesterday he’d told me about this challenge set by Daily Post on WordPress. And when he told me, it surprised me. The challenge was to write about ‘The Sound of Silence‘. He’d said he would write about his world where silence raises his spirits, increases his energy levels, and motivates him to read and write better. I can guarantee I’ve known him better than anyone else. I’ve been to every trip he’s travelled. He’s unaware, but I’ve been a shadow cast over him, for almost all his life. For all he knows, I know better. As long as I walk beside him, I can assure you he’ll be safe. But I doubt what’ll happen when the day comes when he asks me to leave him alone forever. Although that would give me a shock, I can only hope he would be independent and matured enough to live the rest of his life facing the world.

I know he’s one of those wonderful people who likes to live in silence. And he appreciates it. He gets a piece of mind and makes sure he meditates whenever he gets a chance like that.

[Lying on his bed, undisturbed by the mosquitoes flying outside the net he’s hung it up, he murmurs something. I’m unable to make out anything. Suddenly he sits up and speaks out a word. And I’m dumbstruck as he clearly puts out the syllables of the word ‘Silence’. He goes back to his sleeping position slowly.]

Maybe, it’s time I went off to sleep as well. The more I keep writing, the chances of the author getting up and catching me red-handed increase. But chances are rare. I’ve known him since long and I can assure you he’s not going to wake up any sooner. But I don’t know what he’s going to do when he finds out I’ve written all of this on his blog site. It could be the last day of my life coming in front of you. As a reader, I wish to help you understand what the author has been through. But this is what I speak of him. I know not what’s in his head. I haven’t been able to get inside his mind for a long time. He could be a different person altogether. I might’ve misjudged him as well. The world has underestimated him most of the time. Maybe it’s his luck at play, or destiny has something better in store for him.

I hope people will listen to me and support not only this author, but all those who wish to write for every one of you. Writers write and most of them work in solitude and silence. Some might listen to music, while others may write while on the move. But something’s sure. A writer’s mind does live through silence. It’s possible there’s a place hidden deep within their brains, secured with a hidden lock and key known only to them.

I guess I’m biased towards writers. But it’s not what I wish to imply. Everyone’s significant. The world could be a better place if each of us did something for the world. After all, it is the energy that converts from one form to another. And every change that occurs, creates a wave to send out ripples in all outward directions.

Sssshh! I just heard the author wake up. I believe he’s out of his bed. I’m going to put this up now. It’s my wish that he receives an honest response from you, may it be good or bad. I’ve laid my responsibility down here over this mere sheet of electronic media of hard drives. It may be possible that out of millions, one might want to print it on paper and stick it up on their wall. And that’s okay with me. I’d be happy about it. You could bring change to the planet and live a sustainable life, and allow everything to coexist. Help our planet become a better place.

Believe me what I say. I do mean it. If we leave out what we can’t save, what we know of all the sounds that we listen to, would seize to exist. And that would be the time when silence casts its spell over our planet once more. And you wouldn’t want to exist in such places.

I leave it up to you. I hope you’ll do your best, no matter how small the change it is. The ripples will follow only after the minor changes occur.

Finally, I believe it’s time to introduce myself who I am. Or should I? If I put in my name, you guessed it right, I’d be void of this world the moment he grabs me. Perhaps, I could put myself as “Silence”. That way, he wouldn’t realise who I am. I am the silence that rests everywhere.

Note: All above information is provided in the best possible manner. Any more of it, and the writer’s fate would be different. The writer’s fate is set, but it is the author’s fate you all would have to decide on. His fate is in your hands now.

The inspiration comes from the Daily Post Challenge. Feel free to go through other entries here:

1. Weekly Writing Challenge: The Sound of Silence | MAGGIE’S BLOG
2. Heightened Senses | Reality to Randomness
3. Screaming in Silence | Reaching for the Stars
4. Silence | Grilled Cheese (& Other Things That Make My World Go ‘Round)
5. Tears over Gravlax | Not the Family Business!
6. Weekly Writing Challenge: The Sound of Silence « Mama Bear Musings
7. The sound of silence | sixmonthsinaweek
8. The sound of silence: | D Lonely Stoner
9. Sound of Silence | Musings of Shawn
10. The sound of silence | all my likes
11. My Brother and the Silence | jen groeber: mama art
12. Mute | MightWar
13. The Sound of Screaming Silence | anniethinksabout
14. The Last Minority | Deliberating Dave
15. Weekly Writing Challenge: The Sound of Silence | medicinalmeadows
16. In Retrospect, a Response to a Poem I Wrote as a Teen | The Positivity Project
17. Writing Challenge: The Sound of Silence | Home that We Built
18. This is Silence | abundance in the boondocks
19. ” “ | tabularin0a
20. The Cruel Silence. | Abstractions of Life
21. Within the Sounds of Silence ~ Weekly Writing Challenge | DCTdesigns Creative Canvas
22. The Sound of Silence | DragonReader
23. The Strength of the Quiet Moment | Songs Of Support
24. Thought Connections | “Aspernauts” and other musings…
25. The Sound of Silence | Life Sans God
26. It’s Noisy Being Human | noontimethoughts
27. meeting place | yi-ching lin photography
28. » Weekly Writing Challenge: The Sound of Silence | Chiquitita
29. Void | The Salt
30. Am I A Jedi? Oprah, Chopra, and Yoda Weigh In | a contract
31. The Sound of Silence – Ramblings from the Swamp
32. Silencing – Rose Glace’s Blog
33. The language of silence | Emovere
34. A Cacophony of Silence | A Wild One Within
35. Unsaid | Silver.Boox
36. my tug-of-war with SILENCE | YES i WONDER…
37. Breaking His Silence | Focal Breeze
38. The Countdown | Omnithings
39. The Sound of Silence – a short story | Thingiemajingie
40. Thoughts on Sarajevo | roastbeefandrakija
41. Enter Silence | The Silver Leaf Journal
42. Rarity of Quiet | Corned Beef Hashtag
43. Gray silence | Stories from aside
44. School Vacation Routine for Parents | A Fit and Focused Future
45. DP Weekly Writing Challenge: Silence | Phylor’s Blog
46. On the art of better living | soulfoood
47. DP challenge: silence | shape shifting
48. Orion 83 – Part 5 – The Silence | L5GN
49. the (not always so) sweet sound of silence | serene interior designs
50. Silence | The Wonder of Yarrow House
51. I DROVE IN SILENCE | I’m How Old?!
52. Mute | Of love, life and such magic
53. The Wait Of Silence | Wise Blood
54. Searching for Silence | Dance With Madness
55. Man-Made | martha0stout
56. Scenes From the Lobby | pryorities
57. Adjustment Periods Are THE WORST… | Grilled Cheese (& Other Things That Make My World Go ‘Round)
58. The Sound of Silence on the Set on Mt. Tamalpais (Weekly Writing Challenge: The Sound of Silence) | The San Francisco Scene–Seen!
59. Sounds of Silence | bethanyah
60. Dawn’s Silence #poetry #photography | Moondustwriter’s Blog
61. The Silent Treatment | fingerprintwriting
62. Silence of my home | The Word Trance
63. Is it Really Golden? | Testing the Strength I Have
64. Hue Of Silence | Views Splash!
65. Riding Accident – A response to wordpress “silence” writing challenge | pocketfulofrocks
66. Weekly Writing Challenge: The Sound of Silence | Moonlight Reflections
67. Of Gods and Men | Alyeska-Arts
68. Tune of Silence | dandelionsinwind
69. Silence is Deafening | mary’s blog
70. The Sound Of Silence | remindyourmind
71. The Sound of Silence | Alexia Jones
72. Weekly Writing Challenge: The Sound of Silence, 23.02.14 | Markie’s Daily Blog
73. Weekly Writing Challenge: The Sound of Silence | Abby vs. The World
74. Weekly Writing Challenge: The Sound of Silence | Basically Beyond Basic
75. Weekly Writing Challenge: The Sound of Silence | jinyasa
76. What You Can Hear in the Silence | krstokely
77. The Sound of Silence: Can You Imagine It? | Just Be V
78. The sound of breaking the silence | Free advice from a clinical psychologist
79. Weekly Writing Challenge: The Sound of Silence | Heauxdolly
80. The Sound Of Silence | Here is my life, to share with the world
81. kind in heart | Free advice from a clinical psychologist
82. DPchallenge: Not a Word | Machete Diplomacy
83. WWC: The Sound of Silence | The Crucial Kiwi
84. The Sound of Silence | The Joy of Health Nutrition and Beauty
85. A Silent Hunt. | The Shady Tree
86. Silence Speaks Louder Than Words | Creative Mysteries
87. Silence of the Cat | The Adventures of Cat Madigan
88. Weekly Writing Challenge: The Sound of Silence #writing | Of Glass & Paper
89. The sound of … | How to write a memo
90. Behind the Facade of the Narcissist’s Silent Treatment | An Upturned Soul
91. Weekly Writing Challenge: The Sound of Silence – Breaking the Barrier | humanTriumphant
92. The Painting On The Wall | Midnight Butterfly
93. Weekly Writing Challenge: Silent Screams | NOWHERE TO RUN
94. Weekly Writing Challenge: The Sound of Silence | MARGARET ROSE STRINGER
95. The Sound of Silence | 101 Challenges in 1001 Days
96. Weekly Writing Challenge: The Sound of Silence | To Breathe is to Write
97. Weekly Writing Challenge: The Sound of Silence | Chronicles of an Anglo Swiss
98. Hush me again, I can’t stand it. | May van Reenen
99. it’s haircut day | Musings of a Random Mind
100. My Quest for the Sound of Silence | Schizo Incognito
101. No Curse | scottishmomus
102. Weekly Writing Challenge: The Sound of Silence | The Wandering Poet
103. Weekly Writing Challenge: The Sound of Silence | tnkerr-Writing Prompts and Practice
104. Weekly Writing Challenge : The sound of silence | Loin de zanzibar
105. Silence between us | Scent of Rina
106. The Mountain and the Apology | Keep It Real Sister
107. Children Say It Like It Is | Not the Family Business!
108. Excruciating Silence | Life Sans God
109. A Vow of Silence? | living my life
110. Silence is the greatest enabler of abuse. | My thoughts on a page.
111. The Sound of Silence | Cafe Reading
112. Weekly Writing Challenge – Silence | Niki’s Thoughts
113. I Answer My Mom | angieinspired
114. The sound of silence | Boulevard Bellerive
115. Hear no evil | Jenna Dee
116. The unbearable sound of silence | Outmanned
117. The Sound of Your Daughter’s Silence | smallandbrown
118. The Grab Bag Empire: The “Silent” Challenge | britzersleigh
119. Weekly Writing Challenge: The Sound of Silence | Mirth and Motivation
120. Thought Processing Centre | I’m Drew Llew, how do you do?
121. Keeping Score is the Worst Kind of Habit | Rewriting Your Heartlines
122. My silent battle with Harold | Dianne Gray author
123. a one-sided conversation | memoirs of an unremarkable man
124. Silence is Louder. | TNT
125. Weekly Writing Challenge: The Sound of Silence « the barren page
126. the silent heartbeat | lifeinthedport
127. Salt Eater | field of thorns
128. Clamorous Silence, What A View | Wandering Gypsy Spirit
129. Born into Silence | Running Brook Reflections
130. Silence: Bus Minutiae | WWC | i dont even know what im doing here
131. TURBULENCE: Prelude | mesardonicmesarcastic
132. Weekly Writing Challenge – The Sound of Silence: Where are the Christians of Christ? | The Latest Word
133. The Sound of Silence | The Nameless One
134. The Sound of Silence | Living in the Moment
135. Write, instead of think/talk.. | davidriswanto
136. Stop and Be Still | davidriswanto
137. My Relationship With Silence | misserinterese
138. Silence of the Night | tuckedintoacorner
139. Practicing Silence – The Key to Finding Inner Peace | Vida Manejo
140. Weekly Writing Challenge: The Sound of Silence | my random writing zone
141. Weekly Writing Challenge: The Sound of Silence | Morrighan’s Muse
142. Weekly Writing Challenge: The Sound of Silence | becoming a family
143. Weekly Writing Challenge: The Sound of Silence/ The cost of silence in Ukraine | veryukrainian
144. The Sound Of Silence | farmerfarthing
145. Silence – Another way to show your love ! | Out of reflection
146. Weekly Writing Challenge: The Sound of Silence | I Hope You’re Taking Notes
147. Silence And It’s Lessons | the TEMENOS JOURNAL
148. Silence And It’s Lessons | the TEMENOS JOURNAL
149. DP Challenge Weekly Writing Challenge: The Sound Of Silence | Sabethville
150. On Silence | Chasing Yellow
151. The Blog Farm | Weekly Writing Challenge: The Sound of Silence
152. litter | yi-ching lin photography
153. Break the Silence | Living Dead Girl
154. Anatomy of a Difficult Summer | I’m Supposed to be Doing Something Else Right Now
155. Silencing My Mind | Sentiments of a Working Mom
156. You forgot to say your new job was ‘Back Stabber’ | Blogizing
157. The Sound of Silence | Venti Mocha Moments
158. Coerced into Silence…..(wp weekly prompt) | Daily Observations
159. The 31st of March 1994 – Minneapolis, Minnesota | Forgotten Correspondance
160. BREAKING SILENCE – A Pet Peeve Comes to Light | Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner
161. Listen to Silence | Human Nature Coaching and Development
162. Unceasing Silence | undefined by design
163. Grass, what are you telling me? | The Seeker
164. The Sound of Silence: Twelve Hours Without Media | suzie81’s Blog
165. Weekly Writing Challenge: When Dreams Die Do They Make a Noise? | The Day After
166. There Is Wind [Weekly Writing Challenge] | Thoughts from Elysium
167. Hurtful Silence | Me – Who am I?
168. Scarcity of Silence | Artfully Aspiring
169. DP Challenge Rachel Carlson – Author of ‘Silent Spring’ | Midwestern Plants
170. Weekly Writing Challenge: The Sound of Silence (Tell Me If You Ever Hear A Sound) | THE BLACK SPAGHETTI CHRONICLES
171. Weekly Writing Challenge: The Sound of Silence (I hate total silence, some one should break the ice.) | THE BLACK SPAGHETTI CHRONICLES
172. A Post About Nothing. | Sandalwood
173. From the Once Loud House – Evelyne Holingue
174. Weekly Writing Challenge: The Sound of Other People’s Silences | Pop-Culture-Referenced
175. Enjoy the Silence | Life’s Unfiltered Ramblings
176. NaNoPoMo and the Way into Life | Rose Red Stories
177. The intimacy of silence | SomeThing Different
178. The Sound of Silence | Starting write now
179. Daily Post Weekly Writing Challenge | rachelcurry95
180. THE SOUND OF SILENCE … | Reflectingpool …
181. War’s Profound Silence | Lewis Cave
182. Shh…It’s Krantz Cake. | The Novice Gardener
183. The Sound of Silence | Through the Peacock’s Eyes
184. Listen to the silence | Master Of Disaster
185. Weekly Writing Challenge: The Sound of Silence | JGTravels
186. Eight Things I Wish I Knew Before I Taught at a Boarding School | Kosher Adobo
187. The Sounds of Silence* | Icescreammama
188. underwood | yi-ching lin photography
189. Weekly Writing Challenge: The Sound of Silence | Under the Monkey Tree
190. Moments | anonim0us
191. Moments | anonim0us
192. Silent Agony | Broken Light: A Photography Collective
193. Silent crimes | Speaking Voiceless
194. The Sound of Silence is a beautiful thing | Amanda Montomery
195. Weekly Writing Challenge: The Sound of Silence | A mom’s blog
196. Hug Her Back | Fish Of Gold
197. Media Blackouts Insult My Intelligence | Bumblepuppies
198. As Loud as Silence | Chimerical Chicanery
199. Unspeakable | Musings of a Soul Eclectic
200. Aborted Words | The Backwords
201. Weekly Writing Challenge: The Sound of Silence | carojesu
202. yesterday’s snow lets | y
203. A SILENT SONG | Diary of a mind
204. A Common Baby Myth: Babies Should Sleep in Silence.. Ssshhh! | Peek-a-boo: Baby and You!
205. Silence « mediumblackdog
206. Never Give Up, Never Give In: My Epiphany! | Hope and Faith
207. Brady’s Silence (explicit) | Stories From My Mind
208. Coyote Hill | The Seminary of Praying Mantis
209. A Silence Louder Than Words | snapshotsofawanderingheart
210. Weekly Writing Challenge: The Sound of Silence | Tales from the Motherland
211. When The Silence Almost Deafens You | Unload and Unwind
212. Classy Broad
213. The Day I Found My Voice | A Path of Living Stones
214. When you said “Nobody loves you” | So Not Simple
215. Finding what you didn’t know you were looking for… | Crap I Blog About
216. WWC: The Sound of Silence | Learning the Anishinaabe Way
217. Who Said So? | Buzzy Beez
218. Silence challenge | knovak616
219. The Silence Welcomes Me | StormieSteele
220. Weekly Writing Challenge: Have you seen me? | Life of A Fallen Angel
221. Silence | Perspectives on life, universe and everything
222. The Things We Don’t Say | A Sign Of Life
223. Breaking The Sound Of Silence | At least we made it this far…
224. In the silence of a word | MC’s Whispers
225. From Silence Came Wisdom | Lifeinpawprints’s Weblog
226. Blog challenge – The sound of silence « Defy The Narrative
227. Could the end of ‘that time of the month’ be related to that time of the year? | Minnesota Transplant
228. Weekly Writing Challenge: The Sound of Silence | Echoes of My Past
229. Good Grief | Wittyburg.com
230. silence and snow | from dreams to plans
231. Weekly Writing Challenge: Sounds of Silence | Reflections and Nightmares- Irene A Waters (writer and memoirist)
232. Jumpers for goalposts… | Dreaminspice
233. Weekly Writing Challenge: The Sound of Silence | Pop-Culture-Referenced
234. The Silent Sisters | 22 going on 33
235. Weekly Writing Challenge: The Sound of Silence | Bringing Out the God-Colors in the World
236. Suicide no. 27: Vow of Silence | derekalanwilkinson
237. Silent White | Mary J Melange
238. Weekly Writing Challenge: The Sound of Silence | Your Original LUPUSDIVA….
239. Weekly Writing Challenge: The Sound of Silence | No Apologies
240. Cable Cut-off | The Zombies Ate My Brains
241. Silence so Loud | My Weigh To Lose
242. Silencing the Critics’ Chorus | V Learns Something New
243. Silence of the Blog « ph.d. in creative writing
244. Life: The Search For Someone Who Understands You | Paint Before Death
245. Silence | Dandilyonz-4-U
246. Remaining Silent | Bits of Life
247. Inexhaustible Treasure | Love in the Spaces
248. HOW DOES SILENCE SOUND? | SERENDIPITY
249. A moment in Paris | The Bohemian Rock Star’s “Untitled Project”
250. Weekly Writing Challenge | Fit 4 Life, LLC
251. No More Honesty | Among the Whispers
252. The Silent Storm | Martialing Art
253. I’m excellent at taking criticism (see? that sounds weird, right?) | sincerelyimitated
254. My worst nightmare is coming alive, the silence is the glue to it all | From One Crazy Life To Another
255. This is the absolute FPiTS! | Thorough and Unkempt
256. Weekly Writing Challenge: The Sound of Silence | My name is Ellie and this is who I am.
257. Ah-kya-kha-loo-i | I’m a Writer, Yes I Am
258. Don’t Change That Channel-er ! | Once Upon Your Prime. . .
259. Enjoy the Silence | Kokopelli Bee Free Blog
260. “Oh” | Gnome Lover
261. Breaking the Silence on Autism | Love, Support, Educate, Advocate, Accept…
262. Weekly Writing Challenge: The Sound Of Silence | imagination
263. Weekly Writing Challenge: The Sound of Silence | sailingthroughthefog
264. Weekly Writing Challenge: The Sound of Silence | alysslombardi
265. Minnie’s Quite Silent | Minnie | A Personal Blog
266. Silence Breaker | thenaturalprofessor
267. I’m Hoping My Mother Ignores This One. | meg lago
268. Weekly Writing Challenge: The Sound of Silence – Silent-phobia | SA:ME (사메)
269. Favorite quotes from Alabama literature | Andrea Reads America
270. A resounding silence. | Multifarious meanderings
271. Weekly Writing Challenge: The Sound of Silence? | seikaiha’s blah-blah-blah
272. What I Didn’t Say | My Newingness
273. litadoolan
274. Shamed Silence Broken | Ever Upward
275. THE SILENT TREATMENT | DANDELION’S DEN
276. #1 | Justin B.
277. society | yi-ching lin photography
278. all of life is a | y
279. The Long Unspoken | the intrinsickness
280. Being Silent Nevermore: The Psychology of Raising My Voice For Those that Have Been Muted « psychologistmimi
281. A Borrowed Identity to Fill the Silence. | W.T.F.
282. Footfall | Tell Tale Therapy