Is Silence Really Golden?

As an old saying goes, speech is silver, silence is golden

, and this indicates that it is not only necessary but also wise to keep silent in many cases in the ordinary life.

Sometimes, silence may be originated in the good will and good manners, such as in front of dying friends or family members, we are not willing to talk about their condition, or when we chat with a stutter, we pretend to pay no attention to his stutter. But on some other occasions, silence may be originated from the cowardice. People feel scared at the power or high pressure; they are afraid of losing the opportunity to climbing up the social class to power or losing the material possessions that they have already had such as the big house or the car, therefore to be silent has become a self-protection mechanism. Dignity is the epitaph for the dignified. Silence is the passport for the silent.

On some other occasions, what people fear is even not the loss of interest or physical violence, but being isolated by other people in spirit. For the attachment of a sense of belonging, they achieve the warm sense of belonging through keeping silent. The social problems become the "elephant in the room". The "elephant in the room" is an English metaphorical idiom for an obvious truth that is being ignored or goes unaddressed. The idiomatic expression also applies to an obvious problem or risk no one wants to discuss. Although an elephant in a room would be impossible to overlook, people in the room pretend that they cannot see the elephant and therefore avoid dealing with the problems. They keep silent.

The more people keeping silent, the more difficult it is to break the silence because as more and more people get involved in a vortex of silence, to break away from the whirlpool need the greater the strength and courage. Usually, the fates of f the prophets in the history are often tragic. Facing the first one who stands up and point out "the elephant in the room", people tend not to follow his finger to see if there is an elephant, but angrily rebuke why he woke their good sleep. Indeed, they will become raged because that guys the personal courage reflects their cowardice. In this way, the elephant in the room keeps growing as all of the people in the house choose to keep silent.

Therefore, silence is not always golden.

by: lyell

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