!5 Minutes of Silence (So I thought)

For my public space, I picked the library. One might think this defeats the whole purpose, but thats why I wanted to do it because the library is ironically louder than you think.

I sat directly behind the computers and the printers on the first floor. From the moment I sat down until the moment I got up you could hear the constant sound of the vacuum. The sounds from the vacuum varied through out the time, it became background noise. Along with the vacuum I noticed people always coughing and sneezing which almost became a rhythm, after almost every 30 seconds someone always had to relieve themselves with a cough or sneeze. Other interesting noises i noticed were; whispering, footsteps, crinkling of paper, and a chair using being moved. The door was constantly opening and closing as the people came and went Although it seems like the library was extra noisy that day, it still had an overall calming feeling to it. The time towards the end came a lot quicker than the beginning, because i started to forget what i was actually doing, and instead i just listened to the sounds. The 15 minutes ended up flying by, which i was not expecting.