Sometimes I think that a silence is necessary to help one think through what they are about to say, where they're going, or who they want to become. Sometimes silence helps us to gather our feelings instead of making rash decisions and sometimes its just needed after a long, exhausting day.
But there are always those moments, when you're driving in a car with somebody that you don't have much in common with and you feel that maybe you can find interests with them as a way to "fill the air with noise." There are moments when you just let out all of your emotions and whoever you told doesn't react how you expected, and there again, is an awkward moment. You think to yourself, should I have said anything at all? Should I have kept it inside? Why did I even expect something out of nothing? Those moments with a family member that you have no interest in speaking to and those moments when you run into somebody you haven't seen in a long time but never had such close relations with are just a few examples of when a silence can truly become awkward.
Silence is what you make of it. It is what we all need sometimes; that quiet piece of mind. Yet sometimes it drives you mad because you wish you could understand what someone is thinking but you just can't gather the right words to say.
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This post was so well written!!
ReplyDeleteI connected with the part when you talked about being with someone you hardly know and finding the right words to say just to talk because you felt you had to.