When silence speaks

When silence speaks, words lose their power. When silence pervades, peace invades. When silence tugs at your thoughts, you know you have found tranquility.

When silence prevails, keep talking to yourself too often. When you don’t get answers for the questions you ask from others, keep asking them from yourself. Silence has answers to the questions that can’t be answered with words.

When silence prevails, be thankful for the fact that your senses are sharp enough to capture its message. Even if you are someone who cannot live without music constantly playing in your iPod, silence tempts you to its own melodies. It can inspire you; other times, it can shred you into pieces.

When silence prevails, be a poet or a painter. Drown your worries in it. When silence greets you, greet yourself with a cup of hot chocolate. Silence will tell you why you were running away, when your dream kept chasing after you. Then you will realize that all this while, you have been on the right route, heading toward the right direction- only driving the wrong vehicle.

When silence prevails you will realize that one phase of life is over and the next phase is about to begin. Snug in the silence before sinking in the hustle and bustle waiting to greet you.

When silence prevails, feel the sense of dominance it gives you, that air will hear only your voice, and only your foot-steps will echo in the empty house. Having the house for yourself will make you feel like a queen for a day. That is when silence works its magic!

Silence will make you realize that you have attained maturity. When the whole world screams at you, you will be able to hold hands with silence and keep your serenity. You will realize that, gracefulness is when you can tolerate what you couldn’t tolerate earlier and keeping your cool, when the ones around you boiling with rage.

If you are comfortable with silence, without fearing of a storm then you know, you have made peace with yourself.

Why is empathy so hard to come by?

People sometimes read cheesy love stories and live in those worlds of romance for a couple of days. They would start thinking like the characters and will try to inject some romance from the book into their own lives. Be it a love-story or an epic of a freedom fighter or a biography of an inspirational person, the readers go to the extent of treating them as acquaintance.

You go to bed with the book in your hand or thinking of what happened in the Soap you watched after coming home. You keep wishing them a good ending because you feel for them even though you know they are not real.

So, for such a person, a joy or a grief of someone in his or her real world means a lot more than a story out of a book. And we try to reach out instead of discussing the  incidents and help out rather than sitting and watching what is going to happen next. Empathy is an emotion that is so rare and only comes in limited stocks.

Unfortunately, in a trend that seems like the world is spinning the other way, people have started treating anything that is out of their lives as a mere piece of news or good premise to scale their different opinions; be it your neighbour’s less peaceful family life or the new girl in the office breaking up with her boyfriend, you go to the extent of passing judgment on them when you really have no right to do so, never for a moment thinking that you could be In that situation one day.

Why would you read a book and cry, and when you hear the same incident happened for real, only take it for good gossip- material? Why was empathy that you felt for the non-existing character as real as the fakeness of your reaction when you heard that your not-so-close friend has got engaged? How easily people forget that as much as they value their lives and try to safeguard their privacy, others do the same, as their lives too are constructed from the same material perhaps of different proportions.

The Royal family and may be two-thirds of those Hollywood stars would never appear in tabloids if they have a choice. It is not funny when their relationships and failures are constantly discussed in the open as they are entitled to a certain degree of privacy too.

There may be ones with serious attention problems who love to be subject of scandalous gossip. But as for the rest, imagine someone discussing how everyone stared at your duck-walk while you are trying to rate low the new girlfriend of the tall, fair co-worker coz she is bit on the chubby side.