So much empty space, I wonder what sounds you would hear if you held the darkness up to your ear? I'm sure your first thought is that you would hear nothing; it would be silent. But I think you might be surprised to know that you would hear something; an inner noise that you had been drowning out until now. That noise is the sound of everything you don't want to hear, the bad as well as the good. There are the run of the mill fears and doubts but then there are things like self apprasal and the patting of oneself on the back that if we truly believed it, would mean that deep down we are all actually good people. We can't have that sort of thing roaming free in our heads, so let's turn down the volume on that and focus on the bad instead. That way we have no one but everyone else to blame for how awful we think our lives have become.
I wrote this a few days ago and, of course, is blatant sarcasm but it got you thinking, didn't it?