Moment of Silence

“Silence is a powerful statement” as it says, but who decide that? I mean how can one realize and decide to be silent? Is it a choice? Is it forced? Is it privilege? Or is it just a situational? Sometime I chose to be silence, sometime my fear take is over and make me silent, sometime it is just an avoidance and also sometime it just simple laziness, where I don’t feel like explaining myself nor justify.

I have been raised in house and society where speaking mind and thoughts is not allowed and count disrespectful. Bado ka adar karo, isn’t that a subtle way to mum the voice and forcing one towards silent? That continues throughout one life, teachers, lecturer, manager, parents, and society. Everyone has a part to play in this. I wonder why they do that. Why they asked me to silent, is it because they don’t have answer to my questions? Or they don’t know how to deal with a situation? Are they trying to hide their lack of understanding? Or just simple imposing their own thoughts on me? What will be the reason? As it says, it’s better to silent than to answer. Is that the first seed of silent in my life? What kind of impacts it has on me? How will I ever be able to understand my silent?

There are certain time, I like to and want to shout and tell people certain things but I get confused because of those seeds. Should I do it? What will be the outcome? How that person will react to it? But then I realize I am not doing it for any of it. I am saying it because of me, because of myself. I wanted to tell things for my betterment not for others. Why that fear has been cultivated in us? Who will be benefited from that? Is that a big system takes place behind it? Who is the mastermind for this?

What will it take to understand silent? Is it language itself? If so, why people won’t understand it? Why no one ever understand it? Why they think is as weakness? Can silent be a strength? if so, how to show it and express it?

I been told, kyu ladki ki tarah chup ho jata hai, Does silent has a gender? Mard ban, bol , raise your voice. Why one has to be man to speak up. Or is it because women been silent by those same men? But it’s too late now to realize and we somehow made a said out of it. Or again the patriarchy peeping here?

What will it take a world to realize that silent it has its own voice? Why we being deaf to it? When we are going to learn that language. Is it even possible for us to learn that language? Forget about language, just to understand the silent. Will it too much to ask?

There are many still curse themselves for being silent every day. Is it also because we never given a voice? Or teach how to communicate? How to articulate our thoughts? And how to REACT or response? Will it be nice to learn communication to understand the silent?

I have realize and come to terms that it is not easy to be silent but it is required and necessity at time. Should we be all learning the timing and situation to call upon silent? Rather than cursing it? Will that makes our lives easy, if we know how to utilize silent for our betterment? Is it even possible to do that?

I want to take a Moment of Silent here and say, YES! We can totally do it.