There's a strange moment when you notice it: the hum of traffic, distant sirens, footsteps on pavement, a train rattling somewhere below. At first it's just noise.
But stay long enough, and it becomes something else — a kind of silence.
Not the absence of sound, but the absence of attention to it. Your mind stops flagging each car horn as an event. The city's static turns into background, almost like a heartbeat you've learned to stop hearing because it never stops.
🔹 Maybe that's what "home" means in a city — not quiet, but
familiar noise.🔹 The sounds that unsettle a visitor are the ones that let a local finally relax.
✨ Silence isn't always empty — sometimes it's just noise you've learned to trust.
What sound does your city make that you've stopped hearing — until someone else points it out?
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