Day to Day happenings in my life

Joy

Prompt:"A happy life must be to a good extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live. "Bertrand Russell Write about this quote in your Blog entry today.

To me this quote rings true. I can’t even think when I’m in a noisy environment. I love peace and serenity. I have to have peace to be able to to do anything. I can’t read or write when an outside noise invades my mind.
Yet having said that, when I went to my yoga class last week the teacher told us she’d been taught to block out all external distractions. Her yoga teacher had once deliberately held a class in the middle of a construction site. His theory was anyone can choose to ignore what could be an annoying noise. I tried but I wasn’t very successful.
As I get older I find the sound of a screaming child in a supermarket so hard to bear. Yet I was the same as that stressed out mother, years ago, and wonder how I tolerated the tantrums.
I do love those lovely family get togethers when everyone is talking at once, I love music turned up loud and singing on the top of my voice, but I need those moments of quiet, listening to nature’s sounds. Then is when I receive my moments of pure joy.