My Not So Interesting Life

From the title alone, many of you will have had mixed ideas. Before I have to repeat this to five hundred other people. D+M = Deep and Meaningful.

For further reference, it is not

• A secret code name for a couple
• Related to S+M
• My announcement of a new bitch
• Ant + Dec related
• A disease

(*these were ACTUAL suggestions. What kind of readers DO i have?!)

Y'know I've never really thought about it before but I've really underestimated the power of mass silences.
And no, im not talking about the kind of silence that comes upon us after one of my "jokes" or a "conversation killer". Yes, i do appear to be "overusing" these.

But yes. I'm talking about the mass silences of the recent days. We had one in McT's assembly. We had one in the middle Economics. There was even one this morning.

Before I go on to talk with serious, yet beautiful words about serious, yet beautiful things - I'd just like to point out. Mr McTavish SEEMED like a dude. However, I am firm in my "contreversial" belief that he is from the Stone Age in both body AND soul. That is, if he has a soul. Not that he scares me but seriously, the man is as straight edged as they come.
Quote: "You don't deserve to be Head Girl, you'r skirt is too short"
No joke.
I still maintain that Ambray should have replied "You don't deserve to be "acting head master", you clearly wear your trousers too high up your own..

As i was saying.
Mass silences. Okay, we all know we're just tiny insignificant specks in this highly populated world we live in right? But for those 2 minutes in which the whole area fell silent. The classroom was still. The cars stopped. For those 2 minutes the school, ground to a complete halt.
It makes me think. Slightly in awe actually. Just think, while we did that, the rest of the country stopped with us. (of course, i'm speaking in general terms, I know not EVERYONE stopped, but just for the mental image and emotive words, go with me here)
And in that moment I realised that even though I'd done this about a hundred times in the past, everytime I do it, I become more aware of it all. I mean, when I was younger it was just a sort of, just go with it, kinda things. I still remember there was like an 'unwritten' sort of contest to see who was the "most upset" and "affected" by the whole thing. I never won.. I can't cry on cue unlike SOME people.
I'd hate this to sound like some sort of pretentious "and-i-realised-how-lucky-i-was" deals because it's not. Just, seeing on TV today, the streets of London at a standstill, a view over Westminister with everything still. Hundreds of people standing side by side- the leaders of the nation, representatives from around the world. All together. In silence.

And everything was .... .... at peace.
Which I suppose is the whole point of Remembrance Day right? Recognise that we live in a world with peace? Though some of you may dispute that lol

Being the busy person I am (err understatement), my life is pretty much non-stop. Hectic. Rushing here, running there, falling over on the way. And the rest of the world with me of course - it's a world where each person has their own life, with their own jobs, friends, morals and ideals. Think of all the strangers that pass every day. Have you ever wondered about what their life is like? What they do for a living, if they're married, have kids. It occurred to me that for every day I face. For every one I meet and every job I have to do - there's millions of people out there, in this country alone, that are doing the same thing. Living their lives too.
The world does not revolve around us. Everything is not always about what happens at school, what happens within our friendship groups, who said what and who likes whom. There's more to life than that.

And its moments like these when I can stop. Everything stops. And I can just stand there and think about what's really going on. Even if it is for only 2 minutes.
But for those 2 minutes. We're reminded of the fact that we are not alone in this world.

And for that I'm grateful.