Is silence golden in today’s world?

It is somewhere close to you,

Somewhere around you,

Not in something deep but in something you can feel,

We hardly experience it in our daily lives,

But ask your grandma she says its divine,

You may feel you know it but no you do not,

Your ears are numb you don’t hear anything,

But look inside you do you still hear nothing?

Friends, family, secrets, and cries

So much noise is enough for you to forget you and your points

It is not that difficult cause silence lives within,

No matter who speaks you will hear it therein,

Silence never lies it always tells the truth

Singing a sweet melody or a haunting tune,

 So just be silent when you are angry, silent when you think,

But let your voice be heard to do a good deed,

 The feeling of silence is lonely,

The sound of silence is haunting,

The smell of silence is airy,

But once you get to know it

It sounds a lot homely, a lot familiar, a lot holy.

 Greetings, this is a piece of poetry I wrote a year ago..

Today let’s discuss everything about silence (shhh, don’t forget we are talking of silence so keep it down)

In today’s world, there’s noise everywhere we go,

The honking cars on the roads,

The screaming boss in the office,

The baby crying at home,

Or the sound of loud music coming from the house of your neighbor (who you hate).

But we have ways to escape this noise and run away from it but what about the commotion and chaos that lives inside you.

Can you hide from that too?

We are surrounded by sounds of all sorts some pleasant, some not so pleasant but we hardly ever experience what is called true silence, to my surprise some studies even say that humans cannot survive absolute silence and moreover most of us can’t even fall asleep without some background music.

We speak about noise pollution and how it affects today’s world, how deadly its effects are and how to prevent it, I am sure I studied some ways to prevent it in my SST textbook somewhere. And it’s true the World Economic Front has just published a list of the worst cities for noise pollution based on over 200,000 hearing tests.

Silence (A beautiful word with an even more beautiful meaning)

It has this very unique ability to do a lot of things, the power to break or fix relationships, the power to make you realize the importance of certain things in life, the power to help you meet your true self, the power to assist you to see clearly through difficult situations.

Silence has the power to either heal you or break you in ways unhealable.

We, today cannot even spend a minute thinking about nothing at all, there’s always something or the other that is going inside our heads. And I get it I have tried we can’t really do anything about it. We always have to keep thinking of something and it’s anything but under our control. We can’t silence our thoughts but at least we can turn them into a sweet melody, which we do not mind listening to all day.

Silence is golden at times. It’s probably the best thing to practice when an argument is going. It’s also the best policy when you don’t want to soak in the negativity of other people. It’s advised to stay silent when you are not sure of what you are saying, you have incomplete information, or if you have something unkind to say. Besides, silence is meditative, it helps us connect with our inner selves and bring out the best in us. It helps you make the best decision. It has a medicinal quality to it.

We have all heard this right nothing new silence is better than unwanted noise that no one wants to hear but I want to bring forward the other side of it today, what are the situations where silence is not that appealing. According to me

 Silence is not always golden. When you withhold information, an emotion, or an important conversation, it’s anything but medicinal. It turns toxic and ruins relations, emotions, and the universe around you. This is the reason why passive-aggressive people hurt you so much. Sometimes, it’s not the confrontation or an argument (not the endless one) that hurts, but the silence that eats you up like a termite and makes you emotionally hollow. For example, you know for sure someone has been wronged, but you are sitting quietly pretending you didn’t notice. You have seen a molester harassing a woman and you are standing silently in the crowd. You have witnessed an accident but you don’t call up the ambulance; instead, you just choose to watch the person dying. Somebody has been bullying you unnecessarily and you don’t utter a word thinking it’s beyond your dignity to defend your position. Also, when your silence is misconstrued as your consent, it can hardly be golden.

Wise people are not always silent but they know when to be

For me silence is not always gold it is sometimes just yellow

I will not say that we should be silent always nor am I saying that we should open our mouths wide just to utter nonsense, What I believe is that we should have that sense so that we can judge when silence is gold and when it is just yellow.

The conclusion is silence can make it and break it, maybe that’s how life is everything has two extremes’ but to enjoy your life to its fullest we must find a balance between the two….

As said correctly

“Life is too ironic, it takes sadness to know what happiness is, noise to appreciate silence, and absence to value presence.

XOXO