Day 36: Say nothing today

Day 36

Today, I’m supposed to say nothing.

Seriously, the universe sends me my boyfriend, then tells me not to talk to him. No.

I follow the letter of this task by letting the first word out of my mouth today be “nothing”.

Then I follow the spirit by saying as little as possible. But I will talk.

This could be interesting. No idle conversations between me and Mike, we are going to be forced to enjoy silence between us.

That silence will probably—hopefully—be filled with kisses.

The first person I have to talk to is my mom. Saving my words and speaking quietly, I tell her what I’m doing. Then I ask her to explain to Dad because he’s partially deaf and I don’t want to have to waste words by repeating what I’m saying.

I hang out with Mike all day, and I end up talking a lot more as the day goes on. Nothing bad ends up happening, though.

We drive around and go shopping. I decide that I’m going to start collecting those cute little Japanese eraser toys, then I don’t actually buy one because I’m broke.

I try to sleep early tonight because I’m getting up at 6 tomorrow morning for my job.

However, I can’t fall asleep. This sucks.

Eventually I do sleep.

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It's hard being silent.
I've been quiet before, participating in the day of silence in high school, or a small bout of laryngitis.
but this day, I couldn't.