Silence.

Silence is a beautiful weapon that shields me from all that is out there in the world in terms of irrational wars and fights being continued and pronounced in loops, which only devastate the initiators.

Silence to me is a detachment from my mind and its stride to be right, always, to defeat the other, to bring down and humiliate. Silence is a beautiful ending to a frustration that has no beginning nor ending, inflicting harsh words and criticisms. Silence ends it where it started from the very beginning.

Silence might seem like a sign of weakness, of not being able to fight back. But personally, it’s only a language that speaks one mindful choice: I refuse to surrender my humanity in circumstances that are deemed useless and harming. I refuse to listen to my ego, or the constant rush of reactions. Silence requires endurance and calmness, but it brings back things to where they should be. It tames the wildfires. It shines a light through the stormy clouds— it was nothing after all.

And being silent sometimes may seem like a wrong decision, but it always proves to be valuable as time passes. It may stop one from harnessing the truth and speaking up for it, but doesn’t the truth reveal itself after all, without interference nor resistance?

I believe in peace and tranquility. I believe that with introspection, we can fix the problems governing the thought-chains initiated by our minds. As we resolve our own internal wars in which we seem to destruct an inexistent shadow of “self”, we resolve the problems of humanity. The healing force echoes transcendently and allows peace to ripple, reaching the far edges of what needs to be reformed.

I believe that by speaking up in demand and in heat, we sabotage any chance there is to be listened to diplomatically. We create chaos and confrontations that end up with triumph naturalised by defeat on the other end of the equation. You cannot defeat injustice nor corruption, you can only cure it by personally showing up and making a difference.

Silence is the strength we need to face it all. It is the armour we wear to get through the battles we do not want to fight in, it leads us to the very core, to the space where it all originates, where we may work vehemently and with patience to empathetically cure all human ailments.

The world needs more silence. More introspection. More listeners.

Till one day I work hard for a world in which a generation can enjoy the collective silence of the universe, glimmering with inner peace and gratitude, its wars an oblivion confiscated within the pages of the past.

I am working on it.