Silence

I have not yet written about my experience at the cemetery, so I guess I will talk about that in this blog. I will say that I didn't expect much out of the trip. I thought it was weird and a waste of time. This experience again made me slow down and think things through. Reading the headstones was sad to me. It's sad to think about how busy life gets and how we don't take the time to slow down and enjoy the little things, when I'm looking at headstones of peoples whose lives were cut short.

We have done multiple activities that have caused me to "slow down" or to
re-read." They all had the same idea, but worked differently for me. My two favorite would be reading outside by the lake, and the cemetery. Both were outside and with nature, which I love, but the cemetery trip related to the story the better. It was so quiet there, everyone and everything was silent. One line stuck out to me relating to this and that was..."The night in silence under many a star." It made me think of how at night time when everyone is asleep and quiet, but yet there are so many noises outside (at least at my house there were, because I lived on a farm). There were multiple things and noises going on around me, but in that moment it was quiet, like when you enter the cemetery everything else is blocked out.

I don't know if that will make sense to anyone else, but it sure did to me. Reading this story each time I was able to get something else out of it. I realized new things, of thought of a line in a different light. Going to the cemetery still scares me a little bit, but it did help me out, and I’m glad I went.