Si…Silencio?!

  I was having a meeting with my staff, busy for the upcoming magazine. Expecting someone might volunteer, i asked, who want to write about the topic “Does silence really mean ‘yes’?

unluckily, no hand was raised. the staffs minds went blank and clattered into sudden.. silence. as if that particular topic, the question was the answer itself. i gathered different reactions. some broke into laughters. others frown and some still wear their confused look as if bannering a big and bold question mark into their faces. still, no one dared to do the task. so, i’ve decided to do it myself hoping i could make a piece out of it.

when two giant forces (e.g. church and the government) become silent on issues thrown to each of them, it could mean that they respect each other’s power letting each do it’s own thing. but of course, not on all situations. if worse comes to worst, it could be just an intro to a massive collision a nd a much louder explosion.just like an inactive volcano that boils inside an ample amount of molten lava—large enough not ot forget its long-awaited eruption.

a student that keeps silent all throughout a discussion, cuold mean that he don’t understand the topics being discussed (just like what several instructors have always been telling the students) avoiding participation with the thought that he’ll just mess out because he simply don’t understand. on the contrary, this student could also be an introvert type though he’s certainly packed with sharp mind and can get over a quiz with a perfect score.

sometimes, when we’re having an ordinary conversation with someone and we notice that we just can’t get it–the thing he’s trying to make sense of, and we still find it insensible, we just keep quiet than to let him think he already looks like a fool.

Oftentimes, we choose to be silent for us not hurt someone else’s feelings. (but whenever my mother aks me about my studies, i just change the topic of our conversation than to kep quiet.hehe).

And sometimes, actions reaaly speaks louder than words that we just let others judge us by what we do because anything we’ve got to say won’t matter anymore. not saying a thing might be an instant relief from explaining to someone who would never believe.

But when actions connotes silence, we just sit, watch, do nothing but still learn from it.

Silence has made its reflection—a simple sort of defense mechanism to play a safe stand on issues that oftentimes must have been given a proper and clear explanation than to left a big and bold question mark hanging on someone’s head.

Just because no one attempted to write on this topic doesn’t necessarily mean that they can’t. One sure thing why the staff went silent when i suggested the topic “does silence really mean ‘yes’?” is that the question can’t be answered by aplain ‘yes’ or ‘no’. as it isn’t as simple as that. it’s just like a large system of equations that can branch out to different solutions and that is CONFUSION.