Five

Day Fve:  Quidditch After Dark

Something is so raw about sound.  I sound insan, but lately I've been fascinated by the way things around me sound.  Even my fingers hitting the keys, it is so clear, and yet natural.  There is something about footsteps.  Footsteps in every form:  outside, on snow, on grass, through the woods, on stairs, jumping, dancing, delcately stepping.  Sometimes I wish I didn't have to talk to people, I could just sit and listen to everyone around me.  I guess I do that anyway very often.  Say I'm waiting for someone in a coffee shop, or seemingly prancing down the street with my headphones on, there is a good chance I'm not listening to anything but to the people around me.  I love listening, which is probably a terrific thing since I can't really see that well.

Like have you ever been driving at night in the fall and had the windows open and just turned down the radio (I know, crazy) and listened to the outdoors?  The air rushing past, the tires against theroad, other cars, fresh air and sound makes me so happy.  I love that I can't drive nowadays so I can close my eyes and enjoy those moments. 

It is sofunny to me sometime to get those questions of "would you rather...losing your sight or hearing?"  ad I honestly don't know how to answer.  I'v lost most of my sight, and dealt with it, and I am lucky in that I can still see if only marginally...  But to lose my hearing?  If I were in Scotland again and couldn't hear my footsteps while climbing the Curang, or to hear the waves against the sand in Italy while also hearing my own breathing and the others around me, those small moments where seeing is memory, and other senses my trigger memory, but hearing something truly makes me remember it in a much more vivid way than otherwise assumed.  I love music, yes, but just the world around me.  I fascinates me, I want to go listening right now.

Only I could go on for paragraphs on listening.  I'm probably going to go outside now and listen, walk and get a coffee or something.  I apologise for he mispellings and the missing letters, my keyboard has been weird since August, I don't really know why...

Go listen today, don't take it or anything for granted.

x
Jess