Silence is not peaceful. It is confrontational. The moment you go quiet, you are flooded with thoughts. The same thoughts you have been running from. The same thoughts you formed. The same thoughts that took shape because you kept opening your mouth. Silence only feels unbearable because you have no working relationship with yourself. You don't know what to do with yourself. You don't know the cause behind the thoughts. The thoughts exist in a vacuum. Without a name. Without a shape. Without cause. Without resolution. You haven't resolved those thoughts. You don't know how to. So you have kept them inside your head, hoping they will disappear on their own. But they don't. Because every activity triggers one of those thoughts. There are so many of them. The thoughts have formed your identity. Your identity is clinging to those thoughts. This loop sustains itself. The thoughts shape the identity. The identity protects the thoughts. So you cannot stay with yourself. You need noise. You…
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