I must say that 'Silence' is the most endangered phenomena today. Wherever I turn to, I see the Culture of Noise, Politics of Noise, Philosophy of Noise, trading of Noise and an Environment of Noise.

My close friends, my office pals keep nudging me about my newly acquired ornament and my growing addiction to it. Yes, my ear plugs. While travelling, while commuting, while taking lunch in the Office Canteen or while shopping, this ear plug has become my constant companion these days. Attached to my i-pod, I just submerge myself completely into Piano or Sitar while multi tasking except ofcourse working.

Yet, there's no escape from the ringing of telephones, honking of cars, FM blaring from the buses and autos, screechings of tyres at the dead of night, shrill of the overhead jets, hooting of the ambulances, Gossips, meaningless ramblings, TVs, even sometimes the hissing of ACs. Seems I was cursed to brook all these and yet act sane.

I decided it was time for me to reorient my affective faculties. How I wished I was a Shepherd's wife. Or better still a She - shepherd. Would've lazed around in the meadows with my books and let the sheeps wander around. I wonder, I wonder, why David and Christ and Krishna were all shepherds. Yeah, why not? why not a shepherd? That'd be an interesting vocation. I really must give a serious thought on this.

Oh!How I wish I could walk through all these walls of noises that surrounds me. How I wish I could slip through this perilous cacophonies. Is there no end to this incongruous dissonance? Why do silence elude me?

And when I think that atlast I've had enough of this deafening din and shut myself up from all these clamour at the end of the day in my own private space, my stubborn Memories come stealthing to my mind and start their ungrudging merriment with Yes again the quiet sound proof noise that bypasses my hearing and penetrates into my soul. I guess, no use fighting with these vociferations. Seems my only remaining recourse is to make peace with noise.

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