Crowd out the loud

The latest bee in my bonnet is this concept: crowd out the loud. This is an answer to and a revolution against the noise in our lives. In our modern day of the mobile man (as in mankind) we wake up with noise -  at one point I actually tuned the radio to noise to wake up to – we work with noise and we noise it up until we go to bed. This especially applies to those 30 and younger, but to a certain degree is shared with the older generations

The noise I want to discuss is the information that keeps crowding our mind. The numerous newswebsites, this blog and its fellows, facebook, twitter, text messages, e-mails, tv, ipods, etc. The list can be extended with whatever social network you nowadays can be involved in, or any other device that keeps you busy.

That is what we are. Busy. Busy all day, and without realising suffering the consequences. We lose focus easily, we are more difficult to motivate, we suffer from chronic fatigue and have little sense of direction.

Maybe I am just projecting who I feel I can be at times on a whole generation, but I think my train of thought is not too much derailed.

The last few weeks I have been reading and thinking quite a bit (enhancing the loudness) but this time I think it has been fruitful. Contemplating, however, not on too many things, but trying to stick to a handful.

Thomas a Kempis says this on the matter:

How can he abide long in peace who trusts himself in the cares of others, who seeks occasions abroad, who little or seldom concentrates his own thoughts?
Blessed are the single-hearted: for they shall enjoy much peace

We can crowd our lives so easily with all these things. Yet what does it profit us?

Join the revolution. Crowd out the loud.