A Time Such As This

All is quiet here. The birds have gone to bed and the bees have yet to wake at all. Cars and automation have stilled and no longer rage. A stillness has taken over. A wrathful stillness that has consumed all nomancy. 

I was born into that generation of automation and the turn of that century. I have dreamed of a time when the sun going to bed meant you did too, where the stillness was tangible. Where you could hear the stars breath and see the birth of new worlds. I have never known, only dreamt of a time such as this. Not the panic, the stillness. We were born for a time such as this. 

If you can hope to see the healing of people you can see the value of the stillness. It is a gift the still, a gift not to be ignored. 

As I stood to watch the sky barefooted and in the cold I could hear my neighbours. They are a quarter mile away and I could hear them. I could hear the hum of the powerlines and I swear I could hear the trees snore. It was such a pure and beautiful kind of silence I could have cried. And so still. No cars, no raging, only living. You could hear the living well... living, and only living, it was beautiful. 

The media has told us all it is time to panic. 

I believe it is time to breath. 

Never again will there be a time like this and for the people who have lost much I do not blame you for wishing it would end; for believing this time is a curse, no I don’t blame you at all. Never again will the world look the way it does today. Never again will we have this chance. This chance to breathe and to heal. We all have scars and demons to fight. Fights to fight that we have said we’ll fight when we have the time. You have the time, right now is the time. 

This is not the time to wait for something better, no it's the time to pause. To come back home, to come back to yourself. There is only so long you can hide in this time of great stillness. Eventually you will have to come out and confront the person you became while the world was busy screaming. It is quiet now and there’s only so much noise you can make, only so long you can fill the hole in your chest.  

This is the time for which we were born not something we stumbled into unwillingly. And there will never be one like it again. This isn’t something to simply survive, it is something to live. There is no need to hide and cower in fear of the dark the world is surely in. No, there is peace and there is hope. Such tremendous hope. It has been a gift to be so awash within this rest. 

Isolation. What a horrific word. It is defined as being alone. Alone is a terrible thing to be, there is no worse a thing than to be alone. Alone is defined as having no one else present, what terrible thing to have forced upon oneself. But you do not have let circumstance rule your heart and mind. You get to choose. Choose love. It is too easy to choose being alone, make like Mr. Frost and choose the road less traveled. Now don’t go breaking the law of isolation however I implore you, find yourself and hang out with them a bit. 

Silence is a friend of mine of many years, not all can say that to be true. The world is so quiet these days it may drive some to the brink. Those who are acquainted with silence are needed, so very needed. We are used to needing but not being needed. We are needed to introduce our friend silence to those yet to meet him. He has important lessons to teach and only so long will the world wait for him to teach them. 

People need people but some more so than others. Some have come to befriend the silence and the still and have become a strange little family. We need to invite them into the family and not leave them out in the cold to be eaten by despair and sorrow. Invite them in, introduce them and leave them to become acquainted. Silence has much to say and still has much to show. Now that the world is looking it is time to let it happen. Let the healing in, let the healing hurt and do its good work in you. It is time to stop running from the process that hurts, you have time to let it rebuild you this time. No more running. 

The world is quiet today. And maybe, just maybe it is time to listen. Listen and wait to hear what it has been trying to tell you. It is important I assure you. Why else would the world be so quiet?