The title of this post is not something new. it's not a path breaking discovery made just seconds ago. It is probably something that we grew up listening to most often. This line was, I guess, one of the founding stones of our values taught to us by our parents, grandparents, elders, everyone.
It was for me. I believe it must have been for you as well.
Either way, we know this, there has been many quotations written about this and we keep getting ticked off for saying wrong things at wrong times because we don't think carefully before voicing our opinions.
What is going on in my mind right now is not the fact that people speak before thinking or that people don't understand the implications of their words on the other person. What I am thinking is how people don't realize whether saying something is apt or not ! It's about how some people fail to understand the situation in which one ought to talk about certain things.
I'll make myself more clear. I am not asking people to reflect on what they are saying or not to speak their minds out. Do that ! One must do that ! One must speak out what they are feeling, what they feel like expressing. What I am saying is that there is a time for everything ! There is a situation for everything.
I am not saying we should think about the content that we are about to voice out but rather pay more focus on the environment that we are presently in and then decide whether or not it is apt to say the same !
The Chinese proverb "Don't speak unless you can improve the silence" is such because of some reason.
While we are on this topic, you know, there are even certain people who think it is completely mandatory, absolutely essential for you to know their experience-filled advices. It is a duty performed by their soul to remind others of the areas in which they might falter, give highly knowledgeable advices on how to live life right, and how the World would begin seeming a much much better place had everyone begun living the way they did. It amuses me to think how such people always seem to have an opinion about anything and everything, how they can criticize people so easily and how they feel immensely satisfied performing the task of the IKnowWhatsRightForYou kind of a person.
Approaching someone and listening to something sensible being said in response to something expressed by you is one thing, and having someone come up to you without having the complete knowledge of the happenings of your life and listen to things that seem right according to them is a completely different thing.
As much as I like both, I would prefer the first one anyday ;)
Yeah, think before you speak. Everyone might not be interested in everything you say all the time.
It was for me. I believe it must have been for you as well.
Either way, we know this, there has been many quotations written about this and we keep getting ticked off for saying wrong things at wrong times because we don't think carefully before voicing our opinions.
What is going on in my mind right now is not the fact that people speak before thinking or that people don't understand the implications of their words on the other person. What I am thinking is how people don't realize whether saying something is apt or not ! It's about how some people fail to understand the situation in which one ought to talk about certain things.
I'll make myself more clear. I am not asking people to reflect on what they are saying or not to speak their minds out. Do that ! One must do that ! One must speak out what they are feeling, what they feel like expressing. What I am saying is that there is a time for everything ! There is a situation for everything.
I am not saying we should think about the content that we are about to voice out but rather pay more focus on the environment that we are presently in and then decide whether or not it is apt to say the same !
The Chinese proverb "Don't speak unless you can improve the silence" is such because of some reason.
While we are on this topic, you know, there are even certain people who think it is completely mandatory, absolutely essential for you to know their experience-filled advices. It is a duty performed by their soul to remind others of the areas in which they might falter, give highly knowledgeable advices on how to live life right, and how the World would begin seeming a much much better place had everyone begun living the way they did. It amuses me to think how such people always seem to have an opinion about anything and everything, how they can criticize people so easily and how they feel immensely satisfied performing the task of the IKnowWhatsRightForYou kind of a person.
Approaching someone and listening to something sensible being said in response to something expressed by you is one thing, and having someone come up to you without having the complete knowledge of the happenings of your life and listen to things that seem right according to them is a completely different thing.
As much as I like both, I would prefer the first one anyday ;)
Yeah, think before you speak. Everyone might not be interested in everything you say all the time.
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