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The Price of Silence

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“I spoke less for I thought that the world would understand more….”

The journey of life is complex and mysterious. This journey has to be completed on your own. People would come and go, and many would seem to be helping you, guiding you and providing you with directions on the path, but in reality, they would be distracting you from your real destination. You would be involved in conversation with them, would build friendship and would spend precious time in conveying your feelings to them, but alas! They would not prove to be a real companion. A wise poet once said, “For men may come and men may go, but I go on forever”.  
Maybe that was the path of the brook, but I would take it as my journey. People would continue to come in your life, try to spend time with you, would assure you that they understand you, but, for once, stand still, talk to yourself, and you would realize, why this thing would not work out. It has happened in the past and it would definitely happen with you in the future. For people like that the other speaks to them, tries and put in efforts to convey what one feels about the other one. But, what about the one, who is on the journey. Should he concentrate more on the destination, or should he try forever to make the people in the journey understand where he is headed to.
Everyone of us have been on a road trip. What we do when we lose directions? We ask someone by the road to direct us in the right direction. If he speaks some other language, we do not bother much to convey what we want, we just smile silently and move forward till we find someone who understand our language. Even if we find someone who understands us, we do not stop to build lasting friendships, for we know, he would not be forever with us and his destination is different from ours.
So, why cant we accept this in our lives. Maybe someone might appear to understand us, but he/she would only understand till the point we do not move towards our own destination. Till the point our path’s collide, we would be in harmony, and once he/she finds his destiny, he would be happy to steer away, no matter how much understanding we had been, or the person had appeared to us.
So why cant we accept the same in lives. Journey is our own. And in order to understand more about the journey and the destination, we have to adopt the golden postulate of silence. No need to make the other one understand, for he/she will not be with you till your destination.
Yes there is a price for this. The price is the tag of selfishness. You would be endowed with the tag of being selfish and self centered, but be contended, for you are not cheating anyone by your silence, unlike others, who take undue benefit of other, who seem to carry a person towards his destination. You would not be social, but at the same time you would not be using anyone. You would ask for genuine help and at the same time ensure never to be involved so much with anyone that a person gets hurt by your gestures.

How many of us get hurt by people who ask for directions and forget to thank us, and for how long?? Not more than a day I guess. So, be humble, speak less and stay contended for you are on the right path. Never be distracted, just go on with the flow of your life……


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