Agree 100%. For years people questioned my insistence on working from home, as well as my life-long, intense aversion to the chaotic “marriage and family” lifestyle. Both choices were made to maximize silence.

One item on this dude’s checklist that I never really mastered though is finding silence in one’s daily routines. The gym, in particular. It’s downright impossible to find a gym that allows one to workout in peace, without the nonstop barrage of loud music.

It’s clear to me that people don’t want to seek out and embrace silence, but rather, they actively *avoid* it, filling in every spare moment with useless, distracting noise. Whether it’s the bombardment of heavy metal in the gym, or laptop warriors *intentionally* setting up their work environment in a loud coffee shop, I seriously think most people fear silence and being alone with one’s own thoughts. It’s pathological. 

 it is. 
i feel it nipping at my heels.
noise comes from demands and fomo desires. silence comes from an identity outside all of that. for me, it is “i am loved and accepted by God.” That is the beginning and end of it.
Out of that has emerged a smoldering anger which resolves into action, toward everything which tries to pull me from that place, and a motivation to separate from the world’s slavery systems to the best of my ability 

 im not sure what your living situation is like, but have you considered creating your own gym? 

 I chase this with trail running. trail running in silence is akin to meditation. 

 ive felt that from you all the way from here. grounded.