Silence is golden, they say. Sometimes all that you needed to do was to do nothing. Precious time can be used to ponder, meander and introspect. These things are necessary to take stock of our performances in our duties as parents, siblings, offspring, employers, employees, pet owners or just as a mere person. Libraries, parks, open spaces, temples of worship and wilderness once were freely available for this purpose.
On the one hand, we say that resting is part of training and that still water runs deep or that only the empty makes the loudest noise. In the same breath, we also say that an idle mind is the devil's workshop, as if our brain must always be doing something at all times.
Perhaps, it was a ploy by the people in power so as not to make his subjects a thinking lot. The modus operandi is to keep their minds occupied only with their almighty bosses' rhetorics - no place for the lowly minions to start using the brains to start a revolution!
Fast forward to the present time, they are at it still. Our minds are constantly bombarded with stimuli, be it visually, auditorily, aurally or by other suggestions. Look at the library. There are computer terminals that have connections to the world wide web. Even in solitude, man is not an island. He is in touch with the rest of the world via his hand-held devices. His daily life is inundated with snippets of jingles and advertisements.
At no time is Man's grey cells indeed at a standstill. It is consistently being overwhelmed with neuronal transmissions. Even at sleep, with all effort by the subconscious mind to purge off unnecessary information through dreams, there is no actual silence of the brain.
Silence is not only golden as it prevents embarrassment when we cannot think of the correct answer, but it also paves a platform to look at our position from a third person's perspective. Things always seem crystal clear from the outside.
Perhaps, it was a ploy by the people in power so as not to make his subjects a thinking lot. The modus operandi is to keep their minds occupied only with their almighty bosses' rhetorics - no place for the lowly minions to start using the brains to start a revolution!
Fast forward to the present time, they are at it still. Our minds are constantly bombarded with stimuli, be it visually, auditorily, aurally or by other suggestions. Look at the library. There are computer terminals that have connections to the world wide web. Even in solitude, man is not an island. He is in touch with the rest of the world via his hand-held devices. His daily life is inundated with snippets of jingles and advertisements.
At no time is Man's grey cells indeed at a standstill. It is consistently being overwhelmed with neuronal transmissions. Even at sleep, with all effort by the subconscious mind to purge off unnecessary information through dreams, there is no actual silence of the brain.
Silence is not only golden as it prevents embarrassment when we cannot think of the correct answer, but it also paves a platform to look at our position from a third person's perspective. Things always seem crystal clear from the outside.
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