The Long Pause

Busy Busy Busy little bumble bees. Summer months are always packed with eventful days, weeks, etc.

This past week, on Monday and Tuesday I attended a seminar for Meeting Planning held in Time Square. Had to take the train into Mid-Town. And it's been a while since I've had this experience as I keep to my Brooklyn Locale. Monday afternoon I headed home, and stepping back onto the N Train I looked around and people were tapping their feet, bopping their heads, earplugs humming iPod shuffles. And I realized that the good majority of the world-or you know, New Yorkers -go about their day with music occupying every spare silent moment.

Pop open the hinge clasping shut our daily thought processes and you'd most likely find La Bamba, Danke Schoen, or Come Go With Me skipping about the synapses.

For me it's been the Lovin' Spoonful's "Darlin Be Home Soon". Can't stop singing it.

It's essential for the brain to have constant activity, constantly processing thought. What would happen if we stopped thinking, stopped humming, stopped observing? If you've ever watch a child-particularly a baby a few months old- from time to time they stop what they're doing and stare into space. Their brains obviously haven't stopped working. On the contrary, they are allowing the abundant amount of information feeding into their little minds the time to deal with it as it comes at them at such a fast pace at that age.

As we get older, the rate of new information we pick-up through observation lessens but never stops. However we are at the information age. Which keeps the world busy busy busy (like our bumble bee). That's also why when subway riders aren't listeing to music they're reading. And when that's not happening they're sleeping. Absolutely exhausted from the overload of informative material (among other things).

So next time someone asks you-what are you thinking about- what's going on- be honest. Don't say nothing because we know the truth. Share SOMETHING.