Silence
Silencing yourself can become exhausting. Especially when your mind is loud. Especially when you live with people who silence your thoughts before you can even speak. Silence is supposed to induce peaceful feelings like sleep, meditation, deep thought, and productivity. Why do I feel like silence is stumping all of those things? It seems like the world must turn in reverse for me. That "NOTW" bumper sticker must be true. (NOTW stands for "Not of this world.") No matter how hard I try, ever since I've become an adult, there never seems to be a peaceful silence or serenity like I had as a child. When silence approaches, so does my fear of what lurks inside it. .