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Joe Love, I think I was referring to the idea that we cannot be churning out stuff all of the time and that we shouldn't feel nervous during that thinking time - we should just let it be. I think I may have posted that on a noise day on Blogit ;-)
posted by
Azur
on October 27, 2005 at 11:35 PM
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MayB
I'm not sure if I'm following you here. But, wouldn't the silence (and aniticipation) be part of a marketing plan as well as the actual delivery of the product (pieces of work)??
posted by
Joe_Love
on October 27, 2005 at 11:16 PM
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MayB
Silence isn't just OK, it is hard to come by.
posted by
johnmacnab
on October 18, 2005 at 7:41 AM
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Ginnieb, I had a landing like that once. I find a couple of stiff drinks always help on a flight. I do a lot of flying and I like it less and less.
posted by
Azur
on October 17, 2005 at 8:05 PM
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Ha! Possibly MayB...
..never thought of that! I prefer white-knuckling it when I"m nervous...when our plane landed with such a bang the other night that many of the overhead compartments opened or when we had so much drop-turbulence once and people were screaming...I was silent. All different at coping mechanisms!
posted by
ginnieb
on October 17, 2005 at 7:48 PM
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CM, thanks. I look forward to your posts again
posted by
Azur
on October 17, 2005 at 3:25 PM
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MayB,
CM 
posted by
cmoe
on October 17, 2005 at 3:19 PM
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Wow, thank you Rachelanna. Me too
posted by
Azur
on October 17, 2005 at 12:53 PM
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Ca88andra, to fit in with today's society is no bad thing! You are living in that society
posted by
Azur
on October 17, 2005 at 12:52 PM
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brightirish, with children in the house my kind of quiet is probably someone else's idea of hell ;-)
posted by
Azur
on October 17, 2005 at 12:51 PM
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Ginnieb, I think that for some boisterous conversation is the way of coping while cooped up on an aircraft
posted by
Azur
on October 17, 2005 at 12:50 PM
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Wow, great post...
I guess how I deal with silence depends on my mood. There are times when I wish I could wrap myself in silence and nothingness, and other times where I need more than silence or a white page. Strange...
posted by
RachelAnna
on October 17, 2005 at 9:37 AM
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Being an Aries, I want everything and I want it NOW or sooner! I guess I fit into today's society really well.
posted by
Ca88andra
on October 17, 2005 at 4:50 AM
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Silvermoon7, thank you. I wrote the first version of this post long ago and I still liked it
posted by
Azur
on October 17, 2005 at 2:27 AM
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I prefer silence to noise--though I like to fill my space with quiet music. And I prefer to say nothing, if i have nothing to say--most of the time. I enjoyed this post. I think I'll ponder it a while in quietude.
posted by
SilverMoon7
on October 17, 2005 at 2:19 AM
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MayB....
I really enjoy quiet and begin to get fidgity when there is too much noise around me. I don't mean at a party or such but in day to day living.
posted by
BrightIrish
on October 16, 2005 at 7:35 PM
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I like the silence...
...sitting on a plane yesterday, with a cabin full of loud boisterous voices, I was wondering what they all
really had to say. That said I think I'm more of a high/low type of person though the beige is okay for short periods too.
posted by
ginnieb
on October 16, 2005 at 5:40 PM
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Quirky, thanks. I'm not sure I said too much. Am just explaining why I am so mute just now and yet if I wasn't so fidgety myself I wouldn't
posted by
Azur
on October 16, 2005 at 5:37 PM
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Spitfire70, it's easy to think we should be saying or doing but sometimes we just have to be. I have found myself in that place
posted by
Azur
on October 16, 2005 at 5:35 PM
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Jojostar, thank you. At the moment I am in that place in between when it's better to say nothing because I've nothing to say
posted by
Azur
on October 16, 2005 at 5:34 PM
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I'm still trying to wrap my brain around all that you said here, there was a lot to digest. But I am the opposite of uncomfortable in silence or tranquility. I NEED it, and noise is highly uncomfortable to me.
posted by
Julia.
on October 16, 2005 at 3:27 PM
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MayB,
The next time I feel anxiety and impatiencs, I should come back and read this again.
posted by
SpitFire70
on October 16, 2005 at 2:36 PM
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MayB
Very well said! Great timing too as I just spent about fifteen minutes staring at a blank page.
posted by
jojostar
on October 16, 2005 at 2:23 PM
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