Silence..

A great writer once said “you talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts”. In other words, when you talk, you’ll start a war where words bombard whoever around you, and the conversation becomes a battlefield where random ranting and usual bashing triumph and as a consequence, thinking is "half-murdered!”

A regular reader will think regularly and say “so what?”. indeed “so what?” the main idea of a normal conversation nowadays, is not to breed thoughts and spark new creative ideas that may help improve the existing functions of our community or for this world to be a better place. No, we bring highly paid men in black neat suits and colorful ties for that purpose..! And keep the mumbo-jumbo subjects for ourselves. Alas, we are the butchers of our own thoughts. How awfully sarcastic, and they say the world won’t get any worse.. ! It seems I’m pushing this too far, and it is not really the case in most of our conversations, but the truth lies somewhere between these two edges. But one thing remains true. People tend to stick to their opinions even if it turns out to be false. It is part of the rock logic belief most of us have embedded in our minds, where people ignore inherited functions of their mere ears. To listen carefully and understand, what is being said is part of having a constructive conversation, however deemed by personal preferences over the big picture; this tool can be manipulated as well if used well.

Yet, there are those who have the ability to talk with a clear presence of mind, with a great sequence of logic and a great harmony of thoughts.. Those thinkers, if I may add philosophers, are very rare and different than the rest of us in a way that when you listen to them you just shut up.. not because of their social rank, they can be anybody.. but because of the reason they speak with, and the wisdom that drops from their mouth.. some of my favorite writers/philosophers are from this type I believe.. just to name few of these: Eduard De Bono (Lateral Thinking) Thomas Kuhn (Paradigm Shift) and Nassim Taleb (Black Swan) and many many others.. not to forget also the works of Gibran Khalil Gibran, whom I quoted at the beginning of this article, and who's considered one the modern philosopher of the modern age, and for your own information, he is the third-bestselling poet in History after William Shakespeare and Laozi.. and to name a few from the ancient classic philosopher, you have to admire the works of Plato (the Republic) and Aristotle (Politics) these two specially had my brain go perplexed, and why would it not, it beats me how they wrote this stuff more than two centuries ago..!! it's amazing how they talk about society and public affairs at that barbaric (to a certain degree) time..

just grab any book for one of them and behold..! your brain will pass.. to the next level..