06/10/2023
"Even if it makes people, including yourself, uncomfortable, love your silence."
You can interpret that quote in a lot of different ways. I want to point out two.
1. Only in silence, you are able to process properly. Silence gives you the freedom to reflect yourself, your past experiences, your life lessons in a proper way and actually at all. We bomb ourselves every day with so many new impressions and opinions and things - distract ourselves from ourselves, that silence appears like a torture to us rather than a gift. If we welcome the silence, the quiet, the calm - it may be painful in the beginning, but it will help ourselves in the long run to see the progress and the beauty, not only in us, but in our surrounding and in our path.
2. Silence can say more than a thousand words. I've learned that the hard way. I always felt the need to talk, couldn't stand the silence - thought it was a sign of weakness. But through the years I've realized, it's the complete other way around. Being silent doesn't mean you're weak. Being silent doesn't mean you have nothing to say. Being silent can sometimes be the best way to express yourself, express your boundaries, except other people's boundaries. You just have to learn when it's worth the talk, worth the fight, worth the energy and when it's better for everyone involved to just stay silent. It is as much part of communication as talking.
And isn't it sometimes so much nicer to stay silent together 😉
