When lips don't speak, Eyes do !
...boldly wear your heart on your sleeve and do not shove it to some dark hidden corner
“The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them; words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head. But it’s more than that, isn’t it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you’ve said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That’s the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear.”
– Stephen King
ince time immemorial, we as young ladies have been repeatedly advised to keep our complex emotions to ourselves and refrain from expressing our innermost demands, emotions, desires, wishes and our varied thoughts. And yet that hasn’t been the only reason of our inexpression. We’ve all found ourselves in circumstances and situations where we’ve poured our heart out only to find that we’ve failed miserably, not because of our articulation but because of the lack of understanding ears as Stephen King’s quote clearly portrays.
“Compromise” has been a very familiar word right since childhood. They told us that it will make you the kinder person, the one with the bigger heart. What they didn’t tell us was that compromising in every situation and not standing up for your rights and beliefs will make them take you for granted and lead them to assume that you’re content even when you are not. They taught us to be terrified of the consequences of our fierce demands and bold expression but they didn’t tell us that not being so can lead to a terrifying silence, a communication gap which is the root cause of all misunderstandings and a sure shot recipe of disaster.
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