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Virtue of doing Nothing




There are situations in life, the catch 22, which are logical paradoxes arising from a situation in which an individual needs something that can only be acquired by not being in that very situation.
What do you choose when you are in a lose-lose situation?
The best thing to do would be not to choose anything, but sometimes that isn't an option.

There would have been lots of times when you ended up hurting, troubling, annoying someone when you least intended do. These are the times when no one's wrong but it's just the situation. Everything has a different meaning when put in different perspectives. The everyday banter, seems like coerciveness; when you realise that the person was already on the verge of crying and it was you who pulled the trigger.

In times when a person is at his/her breaking point, doing nothing has its virtues. There are times when anything that you say has no meanings; it's the clichés which everyone uses.
What do you say to a person who has just lost a dear one?
Anything and everything you say, has been said a hundred times before and everyone knows every bit of what you say but no one believes the genuineness of it. These are the times when in your benevolence you end up irritating a person in his/her grief.
What do you say to a person who hasn't yet achieved what his peers have?
Everything you say has already been said to him before. The inspirational stories, the motivational gurus, the praying to the Gods; is all well known. Yet we don't realise the futility of consoling him. Pity is not as expression of gratitude, but insult. For some this insult is intentional, the others actually don't care anything about how you feel.

For everyone who actually cares. Doing nothing is a virtue. These are the times, when you say nothing, when you do nothing; not until you see the need or asked to do so. The hurt caused by talking less is always mild compared to that of talking more than desired. Speaking isn't always the best way to show that you care. People sometime need to be left alone and that needs to be respected, especially when there's nothing that you could do other than sympathising and those fake words.

"Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation."

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  1. ABHIVYAKTI...May 10, 2011 at 6:31 PM

    One of the best pieces till date!!..and after that i'd lyk to have the virtue of sayin nothing..:)

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  2. UnknownMay 15, 2011 at 11:39 AM

    well a piece is only as good as how good you are able to relate yourself to it

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