Conundrum: Do I have a propensity for silence because I have powerful spiritual tendencies, or does my propensity to dwell in the spiritual drive my tendency to seek out and inhabit silent spaces? Of course, there is also the very real possibility that there is neither causation nor correlation between the two, and I am simply a malcontent unsuitable for human interaction. To be clear, in my mind, silence is a metaphor for solitude, even more so now that I am cursed with tinnitus and won't be able to experience complete silence until I am consumed by flames, at which time, both my silence and solitude will be as irrelevant to me as my ear affliction is to the rest of the world.