First world problems

Have you ever sat in the quiet, only to realize that it's not? I'm doing that tonight as I ponder the things that stress me out. The AC just cut off and I can hear the ever so slight hum of the refrigerator. Occasionally I hear the hot water heater out in the garage too. Outside, the night is anything but quiet. Crickets, cicadas and frogs sing their songs. A distant dog, the flutter of a bat and even occasional traffic noise from people going home. And tonight I wondered, what do people in other places hear? Some hear terrible animals on the prowl. Some hear gunshots and crying. And still others hear the stomach noise of their starving children. And I wonder if they would laugh at my first world problems. When I think of them...I do!