Then sometimes words need to be forced out, giving the feeling that they might just not be "mine", but of someone else, someone I do not yet know.
The next essay is titled "Quiet Ones", and I mention the title first because it was what led me to read it further - what could possibly come out of quietness? The author is Tim Kreider, and the article was published in NY Times online opinion pages, in November 2012.
The essay begins by explaining the Amtrak's coach section called the "Quiet Car", where loud talking is forbidden and cell phones are supposed to be switched off. The essay can be divided into three broad sections - the first where he gives an account of an experience where people were not following the rules, second where he talks about how quietness is not valued anymore, and finally, another experience where the author himself was involved fighting against the rules.
While the first account describes how at times people can be ignorant of what's going around them, the essay gets interesting when the writer talks about the world today and its tendency to be noisy. He describes how TV and music is played everywhere, and about how people tend to complain too much, and spend a lot more time tapping away or conversing on phones, then finally coming back to how some people refuse to recognise the moral reality of those around them - it could be because of the rise of internet, he says.
Although some of the facts may be right, I'm always skeptical when some one talks about "how the world is changing"; its hardly an objective statement to make. The writer then concludes by talking on behalf of the "quiet ones", sending a message to everyone else who barge into their havens, to be quieter. The authors style is fairly reflective, and makes use of a good amount of humour. He uses a lot of jargon and phrases, and relatively long sentences. The accounts of personal experiences add well to the overall point of the essay.
The next essay is titled "Quiet Ones", and I mention the title first because it was what led me to read it further - what could possibly come out of quietness? The author is Tim Kreider, and the article was published in NY Times online opinion pages, in November 2012.
The essay begins by explaining the Amtrak's coach section called the "Quiet Car", where loud talking is forbidden and cell phones are supposed to be switched off. The essay can be divided into three broad sections - the first where he gives an account of an experience where people were not following the rules, second where he talks about how quietness is not valued anymore, and finally, another experience where the author himself was involved fighting against the rules.
While the first account describes how at times people can be ignorant of what's going around them, the essay gets interesting when the writer talks about the world today and its tendency to be noisy. He describes how TV and music is played everywhere, and about how people tend to complain too much, and spend a lot more time tapping away or conversing on phones, then finally coming back to how some people refuse to recognise the moral reality of those around them - it could be because of the rise of internet, he says.
Although some of the facts may be right, I'm always skeptical when some one talks about "how the world is changing"; its hardly an objective statement to make. The writer then concludes by talking on behalf of the "quiet ones", sending a message to everyone else who barge into their havens, to be quieter. The authors style is fairly reflective, and makes use of a good amount of humour. He uses a lot of jargon and phrases, and relatively long sentences. The accounts of personal experiences add well to the overall point of the essay.
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