Silence is highly underrated. Silence makes some people go insane, makes others numb. But the most common reaction to silence is anger and helplessness. Not many people in this world can be comfortable with silence. The lack of sound around them drives them mad. They are in constant search of food for their ears and their brains as long as they are awake, and probably even in their sleep. Be silent and you'd experience the whole spectrum of emotions from a single living being. Try it on more, and you'd have the most enriching life of them all.
Silence, they say, speaks louder than words. The most interesting conversations that you can have are the one's that really don't involve any oration. You can know that you know someone special when silence becomes comfortable. When silence doesn't have to be interrupted by your voice. When your eyes talk and the mind understands.
The power of speech is probably the greatest asset that human beings have. It solely distinguishes us from the rest of the animal kingdom, who seemingly have no way to converse, apart from their actions. For that exact same reason, an ability so strong and so powerful, should be used wisely. Words, once said, can never be taken back. Think twice before you speak, because you might end up losing more than what you could ever gain.
There is nothing sweeter than a healthy relationship with a person. Analogically speaking, there is nothing more bitter than a relationship gone bad. It just takes you from one extreme of sadness to the next without ever giving you the peace of mind that you deserve. It's like quicksand wherein, the more you try to come out, the more you sink into it. It's worse actually, because you cannot ask for help from anyone, cause no one's got the bloody time !!
Relationships, they say, are based on communication. Two people can never think alike, let alone be alike. No one in this world is the same as the other. That is why we are all individuals first. Communication forms that base of the understanding that you develop with another human being. Little do they know, that greater forces in nature, far beyond our comprehensive capabilities, are at play in bringing two people closer and even at splitting the deepest of connections. We are just tiny creatures in this wide wide universe, trying to comprehend the meaning of our existence and trying to put anything that we cannot comprehend into tiny little axioms that no one can ever prove and nobody ever questions.
The most important thing to realize is that it's our existence in itself is the most significant fact. Anything that has happened before us or is going to happen after us is totally immaterial. We can live with anything that was not there before we were born, and we can live with anything that was not there after we were born. Speech being one of them. Just like a mother can understand an infant's emotion without any conversation, so can we. It's more important to have that awareness and that connection with a person to understand him, than any other sound or action possible.
So ladies and gentlemen. Keep your mouth shut and let your eyes talk !!
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I liked the essay about Silence, especially the lines "Just like a mother can understand an infant's emotion without any conversation, so can we. It's more important to have that awareness and that connection with a person to understand him, than any other sound or action possible."
But, I would like to add my comments. Rather critically analyse it. I do not know that if you have watched "My name is Khan". If not than u must, u will like it and derive various meanings out of it.
One of the thought or lesson i learnt out of it is; "communication is very important". Unless you say, that you love the other person or you say that you are in pain will the other person understand. No!! You will be taken for granted. And you start blaming the other person thinking that you love that person so much and this person takes me for granted. But you forget that did you ever communicated that. Yes! you did by your actions. But still did you ever communicated?? If God has given speech, it does have some relevance.
When we talk about talking with eyes, it can be with one or two people not more than that. In case of infant and mother it is more realistic. But to reach to that level, there should not be one way traffic,equal binding and honesty from both the sides that is some where a miss in relations.
But to contradict my own conviction, I would like to recall the old movie of Sanjeev Kumar and Jaya Bhaduri; I think it was "Koshish" wherein the couple was deaf and dumb both but they communicated through eyes and touch. But how this level was achieved? They had intense love for each other and they were the whole universe for each other.
They were handicapped but could better communicate without speech.
Here comes the beauty of Nature/God; the more different you are from the common masses the more you are empathetic and near to GOD!!
Though I say that communication is very important tool but I do not know why I keep quiet whwn I am sad. Why I am not able to communicate my thoughts.Or else I want the other person to understand my silence. But it does not happen and the result is catharsis!!
'U' said, "Bhabi start writing", see i already have.
Cheers...
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