You will never be lost in the silence. We always will have sound around us, whether it is music, people talking, or the sound of a passing train. Without sound, you will go crazy. Try going silent for just a minute, sit there and listen around you, what do you hear. You will always be attracted to the sounds around you, and if there is no sound you will somehow make some. 

Everywhere we go people will be creating sounds and we love these sounds. They may be just random things in the background, but imagine a world without them. Imagine a world where everything is silent. There are people who can’t hear and are deaf. Try standing in their shoes for a minute. Everything is silent, but in their situation, they still can be attracted to sounds in another form. For example, the vibrations they can feel through the ground. They are attracted to these because it allows them to have some feeling of what the thing in front of them is doing. So that train that just passed you, you may hear as loud and obnoxious with a loud horn, but they can see and feel what the train is putting out through the floor.

Humans are always left wanting sound. For the people who can hear we all encounter it everyday. It’s hard to be left in silence. We have been around sound our whole lives, even before we are born we are taking in sounds and listening. After being exposed to something for so long it’s almost impossible to go without it. 

Mentally, we can not separate ourselves from sound, we always have to have it. Human interaction is mainly what it comes from. We have to have human interaction to stay healthy. In our minds, isolation from any outside source will make us crazy. In prison, solitary confinement has caused some people to actually go insane because of the amount of time they go without sound or seeing anything besides the four small walls around them. Also, there is a soundproof room where in the room you can not hear any sounds from the outside. The only thing you can hear is your own heartbeat and breathing. 

We are also very attracted to sound in this generation with the coming of wireless headphones or earbuds. This way we can listen to music anywhere. Music is another thing that is very hard for people to live without. In the past, I wrote an article about how sounds from music can benefit the brain and your overall mental health. Almost anywhere you go you will see people with earbuds, headphones, or AirPods listening to either music or even some podcasts just because they need that sound to function. 

It is very hard going without sounds, and I’m pretty sure we are all addicted to it. Sound is a very powerful thing that allows communication which will benefit our lives greatly. We will never be able to escape the sound of life.