Sounds

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Some sounds are sweet, and soft, and beautiful ~ soothing not only to your ears but your entire system.
The breeze playing with the leaves, the birds marking their territories in the early morning hours. The murmur of the water in the brook. The purring of a cat. All of them sounds that in one way or another make us feel good...

There are also those sounds that ~ even when we are city-dwellers ~ we still instinctively connect with danger. The still before the storm. The posturing cats, singing to warn each other off. The barking of a dog. All sounds that can put us on edge. Yet still sounds that we can easily handle; sounds that may not be music to our ears, but they are sounds at a level we were meant to hear them at.

Then there are the sounds that will shake us to our core. Like the sound of a violent storm, or the sounds of the earth, when it starts moving. These sounds have a very clear message: run, or hide!

All of these sounds are part of nature. And as we ourselves are part of nature as well ~ whether we are aware of it or not, we still understand these sounds at some level. Perhaps we even react to them; act according to that particular sounds as soon as we hear it...

However, nothing compares to the sounds we make.

Man-made sounds range from the most heavenly music one can ever hear, to the most horrific of noises. From the quiet whispers; the sound of a smile ~ all the way to roar of traffic, or even the clamor of demolishing buildings.

How we react to the things we hear is individual. Some people will like to have some sounds around them pretty much all of the time ~ whether they listen to their favorite music, or just have the radio on in the background. Others prefer silence around them; or at least not having the man-made sounds around them such that the sounds of nature ~ or even the sounds of their own thoughts can be heard.

And funny as it sounds ~ to a person who likes to hear some sound all the time, it can be as hard to be surrounded in silence as it is for a person who likes that silence to be ‘assaulted’ by the clamor of a remodeling next door.
Either way, after a while one wants to escape to that level of sounds or music one is comfortable with ~ whether that is found in turning on the radio for that comforting background music, or to go for a nice walk in the park where the only sound is that of the fountain’s water splashing back into the pond...
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