Sometimes I wonder if people aren't generally divided into two groups: those who experience a cacophony and those who experience euphony. There are moments in everyone's life where they might experience both but when I view our brains in terms of the general definition of "noise" I think some people can't live without it.
The people who experience life through cacophony are those people that sit in a car, driving, and have to play the radio or listen to some song. Silence is not an option because something about it disturbs them. This is a clear cut example but the theme runs throughout their life: instead of speaking simply, they'll use many words to describe what they have to say because their minds are not quiet places.
"I woke up and saw the tv where I thought of the ferocious barking it made the night before and dreaded going to work; as it would take me away from my pleasant fictitious din."
I would say that phrase is of one who experiences euphony. The flow is pure and it expresses feeling through words as opposed to words derived from a feeling.
Someone once told me that the English language can be described with the sentiment of two of its main roots: German and French. German words are represented by words like, "bad", "good" and "rough"; while French words are represented by "malicious", "magnanimous" and "turbulent".
French rooted words are rooted in a Romance language which really means from Roman roots or Latin but the irony of the base being called Romance is that the sentiment behind a word that might be longer is to achieve an emotional response from that word.
If your talking to your boyfriend and you ask how his day was and he says, "good," one of two options arise: either you take his word for it, or you have to inquire farther because not enough information was given to satisfy your curiosity. If he were to say, however, "it was supremely delightful!" Now there's really only one option which is you must inquire farther because you actually want to know more.
The words we choose and the feeling behind them represent us to the people we're talking to and I have digressed but I can tie it all back with this: that silence and few words is a discipline that must be lived because it's very hard to speak a few words and maximize meaning. Poets have been seeking to do it for a thousand years and still struggle with it.
The mind that needs cacophony is not worse or stupid for not having this ray of love for the simplistic complication that is that yearning for calmness and oneness but rather just differnet.
Let's face it: without those who lived in stress, we who live in quiet calm would not be able to function and visa versa but we should not seek to empathize with the other because it will only make us angry that we can't understand it. Respect is the key to these personality types living side by side and finding a balance is the essence of life.
