old sounds new again
in the early hours of the morning, as i listened to someone else having a shower in my bathroom whilst i lay half-asleep, i became aware of not having heard that very particular sound in a while. and that it was a signifier of a changing state in my personal life.
i started thinking about other sounds that have been absent from my life for a while and realised that there are loads of really personal sounds like this - the sound of your own baby crying in your room, someone else snoring in your ear, the way your best friend laughs - that are the innocuous soundtrack to your life. but aren't anything that you'd want to carry around with you on your ipod.
until they're not there anymore.
there's something in this i think.
something about giving back those sounds to people who have lost them. maybe making a playlist of 'my husband of 25-years', 'the child i only knew for 2 weeks', 'my younger brother' or 'sundays with my great aunt'.
something.
i started thinking about other sounds that have been absent from my life for a while and realised that there are loads of really personal sounds like this - the sound of your own baby crying in your room, someone else snoring in your ear, the way your best friend laughs - that are the innocuous soundtrack to your life. but aren't anything that you'd want to carry around with you on your ipod.
until they're not there anymore.
there's something in this i think.
something about giving back those sounds to people who have lost them. maybe making a playlist of 'my husband of 25-years', 'the child i only knew for 2 weeks', 'my younger brother' or 'sundays with my great aunt'.
something.
2 comments:
Your post gave me the shivers. Yes, how fleeting are some essential things in life and how undervalued. But it's good to remember this from time to time. So thank you anyway.
thank you - that's such a wonderful compliment!
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