The boiler exploded in the upper floor and the neighbors behind the wall as well as the ones below were flooded with water. They have no electricity and no internet that we share. So I happen to have time to write about water for the Blog Action Day.
Every morning I stop time under the shower diving into memories, analyzing flows of life, causes and effects, or just not thinking at all. In the meanwhile, the water murmurs and makes me calm. Water-counter spins whereas African kids have nothing to drink.
I’ve understood that I need that murmur in my life as much as I need music. When I am old, I shall want to live somewhere close to a fountain or to waterfalls, so that I can sit down at falling water and stay there for hours, either talking with my friends and relatives, or just being alone… with facebook.
It’s the sound, it’s the murmur that creates this state of mind. The sound is called Pink noise. That’s a noise of specific frequencies, usually found in the nature, and having this calming effect. Lapping of waves, the blow of wind, murmur of rain, cracking of fire – all of those create the pink noise. The feeling of calmness maybe came from prehistoric times when it happened to rain and humans hid into caves at fireplaces and calmed down, because there was nothing else to do, was there?
From ancient times human beings are able to recreate the pink noise by applause. What is just an unconscious tradition nowadays, might have had a practical purpose in the past. Artificial pink noise was as a present to respectful people. Nowadays all sounds from nature can be recreated by ipods, gramophones, and tape-recorders. The pink noise is one of the special effects in music, movies, and games, where it is important to convey emotions or so to say manipulate emotions. I shall use it in my life too not only in the 3D audio game.
So water is necessary not only to reduce thirst and to wash your feet, but also for the joy of the soul, so to say. But now I got thirsty somehow and shall go to drink tea.
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