“ Silence is not always valued for what it actually is. Some people like to  sit silently and watch the world around. A lot others can't do that. It seems that only the old people should stay calm and say nothing.  

I always carry  a question with me:" Can people sit together without talking?" We often hear the saying that "Silence is gold", but who should know  such a saying?

Following there should be an answer. Enjoy reading it.

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A time for silence

The next time you have five minutes to spare, do you

know what you should do?  Just think!

Make sure that for once you are surrounded by silence.

Switch off your radio and your hi-fi. Turn off the

TV –and the lights. Shut your books, put down your

papers and magazines. Flick the switches. Turn off the

taps. Free yourself from the tentacles of our consumer

society. Like a frightening octopus, it sucks away what

remains of your freedom and spirit with its debasing

commercials.

Make everything silent around you. Make it silent

within you. And take  your pulse. You must find out

whether you’re already dead-buried in goods, in

that tight corset of money making, achieving.

At a thousand meetings you talk, you protest. The

poor of the third world,the poor at home- they will

get nothing out of your talk, your arguing, your

protests your resolutions.

They loathe them because they know you yourself are

drowing in the very things they must go without.

They will take you seriously only when your

consumption –fever cools off. I do know something to

take for this consumption-fever: it is restraint, 
self denial, sacrifice!