For the season of Lent this year, I gave up silence. You might wonder what that looks like. So did I. I still don’t exactly know. I love quiet. I love to be it. I love to be surrounded by it. When I was about ten years old, I heard from a friend that a mutual acquaintance had described me as being “so quiet.” I took this to be a negative evaluation of my personality and it confirmed what I was already suspicious of- that it wasn’t good to be quiet. I immediately commenced with a plan to become outgoing. It didn’t take long for me to say several things that I regretted and give up the entire operation. But I carried with me the fear that my quietness would result in me being overlooked by the world.
Lent and Easter 2023
Lent and Easter 2023
Lent and Easter 2023
For the season of Lent this year, I gave up silence. You might wonder what that looks like. So did I. I still don’t exactly know. I love quiet. I love to be it. I love to be surrounded by it. When I was about ten years old, I heard from a friend that a mutual acquaintance had described me as being “so quiet.” I took this to be a negative evaluation of my personality and it confirmed what I was already suspicious of- that it wasn’t good to be quiet. I immediately commenced with a plan to become outgoing. It didn’t take long for me to say several things that I regretted and give up the entire operation. But I carried with me the fear that my quietness would result in me being overlooked by the world.