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A Place That Brings you Comfort ?
One thing I love about my best friend, Ess, is that whenever we hang out, there's no absolute need to chit-chat forever. Sometimes we just get to hang out in pure silence. Not the awkward kind, but the inviting, introspective kind. An exercise I have come to love, one that brings me comfort. We just let our thoughts be. It's divine silence, one that stops a lot of chaos in my mind shifting to focus. It makes me actually see my thoughts running up and down my mind. I can walk into her house stress-bottled up, and come out feeling fresh, without having to talk about it. Silence brings me comfort. I don't get too scared of the thoughts and the stress they are creating, but I get to listen to them.
When I can't get hold of Ess, because of adulting, and the world feels heavy on me, I turn to nature. Especially the waters. The ocean has become my best friend. Just sitting on its shores, breathing, reflecting, or even just staring at the tides, makes me feel small in a good way. I suddenly feel like a tiny drop of water in the vastness. What brings me comfort is the thought of its vastness. And as I stare, I feel its embrace, and my thoughts get comforted by its movement, the tides, the waves. I don't have to swim in it, I just need to watch it to feel the heaviness lifted off my chest and mind. Countless times I have walked to the ocean just for the chance to listen to the waves telling my mind to calm down.
The ocean is not always available. And stress has no timetable. I might be at work when chaos come knocking and I can't access the ocean neither can I run the taps dry, and sometimes, silence is also not an option. At those times, I turn to my most convenient place of comfort; sound. Not just any sound, musical sounds. Rhythms. Music is one of my main mood regulators. It is without saying, that music brings not only comfort but peace too. It's the one place I can carry 24/7. My most convenient companion.
When the world feels heavy, my comfort is in moments where nothing needs to be said, and everything is felt, or on a shoreline where my thoughts drift with the tides, and/or in a song that fits my mood at that particular moment.
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