Peace!

Have you felt the power of silence in the last few years of your lives? Maybe this question will take you back to your school assembly days where the teacher’s scary stare made you shut your eyes and pray. That was, in a teacher's vocabulary, 'pin drop silence'. But today, a few moments of silence is rare. The noise of cars, the boss, the machines around you, the crowd on the train and of course the noise of your own voice in your head reminding you to finish off this work and that… can be quite overwhelming and over powering at times.

Try this sometimes; close your eyes to the world. Sit on a patch of green grass under the rising sun and shut yourself to the unnecessary and mostly self imposed pressures. Hear the rustle of the wind which blows past your ears; hear the cracking of the dry yellow leaves on the ground, hear the chirping of the birds, hear the laughter of kids when they board their school buses, hear your own heartbeat, and hear the sound of silence. It has a terrific calming effect. It will give you some moments of peace before you again lose yourself to the brainless chatter of the day.