Hmmmmm...

So I'm on my way home from hebrew school today with Mottel in the backseat.
Music is blaring from the speakers.
Udi Davidi.
Mottel begins to tell me about some random 5 year old thought.
but I don't even notice.
The music is blaring.
Mottel asks me some random 5 year old question.
I hear him not.

Only the music.

Suddenly the song ends.
Mottel speaks.
Oh.
Hi!
Mottel!
You were speaking?
I quickly turn the volume down...
Sorry kid.
It's not like I was ignoring you.

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This makes me think.
It's like we have two speakers in our heads.
speaker #1 is tuned to channel me.
speaker #2 is tuned to channel you.
If the balance is off, everything is off.
Sometimes my speaker volume is turned up so high I can't hear anything else.
I don't even notice there's another speaker.
Someone else is talking?
Huh?
Suddenly I notice and I'm like, woah...yikes.
Turn that speaker way down.
There are other people in this world.
So I turn up the you speaker loud and strong.
Blaring.
And life is good.
Or so I think.
Only now my volume is so low...
My soul is crying...
But i can't hear it.
Cuz I'm on mute.
Or you're so loud I couldn't hear me if I tried.

So I learn to play with the volume.
Bring me up a tad when I need some inner peace..
Blast you on full when life throws you some punches.
For everything there is a time.
And a sound.
The key is staying in tune with the volume changes.


L'chaim to listening to the sounds of your soul, harmonized by the sounds of others.