Night sky

I was looking up at the night sky.
I saw the full moon behind the moving clouds.
Racing.
When the clouds moved out of the way, and the moon was crystal clear,
everything stopped for a couple of seconds.
So I guess that, indeed
We can stop time
very briefly.

~Lmrd

Quiet is gold

When I grew up, a common saying in the classroom was something like:
“Speaking is silver but being quiet is gold”.

I always hated that, and disputed it like:
“How can you teach us children to be quiet, we all need to speak up! Fight the power!”
You mean that we should all be quiet because that is gold, instead of speaking to superiors if you teachers do something wrong, right?

Oh boy was I wrong…
Only took me half life to get it.
It is about the true character and the power of the calm.
The mystery of someone independent from the hive.
It wasn’t really about right or wrong at all.

When a man stays calm and quiet in the most stressful situations,
it is a freaking superior being, or maybe not but that is the unconscious signals that emits from him, and others will translate in awe.

Being quiet does not mean that one agrees.
Mostly, it doesn’t.
It might well be a silent protest, or is he just unmoved, is it not that important?
There is no way to tell.
When used correctly, in symphony with the right body-language, it can be far more effective than speech.

If you have to be talking with someone about something all of the time,
how will you ever have the time to fetch your gold?
When will you ever think for yourself?

You might think it counterintuitive, since we might be socials creatures and all that, but it really isn’t.
Someone who keeps quiet is exactly what someone in need of a friend seeks.
He will listen, because he really don’t need to speak, and will give some great feedback, because if it wasn’t great advice, he would not really see the point in saying anything.
The most important point is that whatever might be the information exchanged, it will be kept between the two.

A little note on integrity:
Remember that you don’t really need to take a stand immediately,
there is no need to choose sides right away, the moment the line is drawn.
It would be wiser to wait it out, for what if you are wrong?
How embarrassing…

Many people can communicate in some way, but most can’t truly grasp when not speaking might be more advantageous.
You know…
If you really listened to yourself ramble all day, you would see that half the shit you state as true in conversations, are things that you have no real knowledge of.
And you speak of it with passion, it is ridiculous, really.
You are another parrot.
You hate, and love whatever the rest of the nest does.

If you would have just kept your mouth shut,
We would have never known.
And you would have been far more valuable.
The independent unknown will always be more attracting,
than the known dependant.

Limit your words.
You can speak tomorrow instead.
Things might have changed,
that will make you look like an ass today.

~Lmrd