Most of us are not very comfortable with silence. A few of us are terrified by silence and try our best to avoid it. There are those who cannot tolerate even one moment of forced silence in a theater or a cinema caused by something like power failure and they immediately fill those silent moments with their shrill catcalls and their charged expletives.

The powerful audio player in your car must always be talking or singing or shouting, even if you find its talk most unpleasant. And yes, you hate being alone, especially, being alone in silence. You rush to turn on the TV and fill your mind with that dashy news reader’s voice and immediately you feel immense gratitude to him, for without his voice filling your room and your mind, you would have felt so lonely. You can easily forget that profound observation made by Blaise Pascal: “All man’s miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.”

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