I was tempted to title this post “Shhh,” but I was afraid that would trigger someone.
When I was a kid, Mom shushed us all the time. It meant we were talking without thinking or we were, as she called it, holding forth. It was time to let someone else talk.
And I understand the danger. Certain groups of people were silenced. Period. It wasn’t a “one moment please” but a “you have nothing of value to say.”
And now? Now we have noise. Everyone has the right to talk but so many of us have forgotten that to listen, we need to stop talking. Because if we’re talking, we can’t hear each other and we can’t hear God.
Listen.
–SueBE
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July 25, 2018 at 2:30 pm
KDKH
My mother valued silence over everything. It was a quiet, stifled childhood because our needs didn’t matter. As an adult, and he only time I complained of noise was with the TV volume. It has to behave, but the kids could speak, laugh, sing!
July 27, 2018 at 3:42 pm
suebe
Karel,
I know what you mean. I’m not into silencing people but there are times with a house filled to the rafters with teen boys that I’ve had to walk into the other room and turn down the TV, usually when they are playing some game and the pictures are on my office walls are rattling. Music, laughter? Keep ’em coming!
–SueBE