Lessons from the Silence 1

After two weeks of enforced silence (during most of which, sadly, I was quite ill) what did I realise?

Humans are creatures made to communicate and relate.  On the first day I probably only managed a 70% reduction in speech - and that was HUGE.  It wasn't just a few conversations knocked out, it was vast amounts of talking.  So I quickly realised that most people spend most of their time talking (and I'm not taking into account the pseudo-talking involved in digital media and social networking). 

Lesson 1: I reckon the activity most often performed by most people, is talking.