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The silent ones
True misery doesn’t love company. It decays the soul in silence. When someone is complaining, it’s because they still have hope that someone cares enough to listen or respond. Or even to empathise. When they give up on these three things, they go silent because they have grown to accept that no one else cares,…
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Silent Protest
A protest that cannot be articulated, is a protest spawned by futility, to feed futility. My contempt for what I am presented with is rarely expressed plainly. My reservations to express at all is grounded in years of…
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The silent lie
Dishonesty isn’t always a lie. It’s often an unspoken truth. In fact, unspoken truths are probably the source of more dishonesty than outright lies. We remain silent when we feel threatened by the revelation of the truth. That threat is not always about exposure of who we are. Sometimes, it’s because we don’t want to…
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The Silent Statement
My thoughts are often as complicated to grasp as my writing is to read. I sometimes read through some of my older posts and wonder how anyone could have gotten the point when I struggle to follow the thought process myself. I used to relate it all much more simplistically in the past. It was…
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A Can of the Best
crappycoffee: I think a lot of people need to kick back and crack open a can of silence sometimes. Designed by FLOWmarket.
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I seem to be reaching out into a void that thrusts hoards of doubt into my heart about what I feel or believe to be important or real about my faith. Naively, I believe that there’s others out there that think it worthwhile to consider principles instead of rituals. Some that may be inclined to…
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Census
forgetlings: All these years I thought you were alone, but now,laid open, it is clear two lost stars are burning into you. One keeps distant memories, art and travel, intimacyechoed in a longing no longer yours to claim. The other is your nature in your time. Its heart is carnal,quick, uneasy, its need to love…
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I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind. I should not be ungrateful to these teachers. Kahlil Gibran
