A Silent Night

A silent night.

If you listen closely to the world as you fall asleep, you realize that it's never silent. You can hear the couple next door yelling at each other. You can hear a dog bark in the distance. You can hear a single mother singing to her child.

If you lived in a world where it was silent when you fell asleep, you'd never actually sleep. Or, at least, I know I wouldn't. I would go crazy not hearing all the noises outside (or inside).

Even though those noises make me feel unsafe, it's all I ever knew. Every time I feel asleep, I listened to those noises. Sometimes they made me feel uncomfortable or unhappy, but I still slept to the noises.

The world is never silent. If it was, we'd all lose our sanity. We'd lose our minds. We'd be lost without all of the endless noise.