Silence

Today I sat in relative silence in the office for three hours. The 'phone didn't ring for me, and my email was quiet - no shots through cyberspace to disrupt my morning. The coffee in the paper cup went cold. The clitter-clatter of fingers on keys and the hum of the aircon unit provided white noise, which I've grown accustomed to since birth. I ponder what true silence is, and realise that it has been replaced in my life, and maybe yours, with quiet. Silence is surely a complete lack of noise of any kind, and what I've experienced today is its poor cousin - quiet.