Speak Your Mind : Deciding to Speak or Not to Speak is a Difficult Choice

Have you ever said something, and then wished you hadn't? Opened your mouth and stuck your foot in, so to say, and the taste of sole, wasn't very soulful? Take heart, this read is for you. Have you mastered the art of keeping your mouth shut? Have you learned the fine art of when to speak and when to listen? Take heart, your stress will gain some relief from this article.

Jack and Jill have big mouths nowadays, and neither sex, world wide, wants to admit that they do. Political leaders, political hacks and those who sycophant off them, in all walks of life, know full good and well, that they have big mouths. The world has underdeveloped ears, and overdeveloped egos, and the problem is enormous and growing. So take heart if you've ever made the mistake of speaking out of turn, you aren't alone- billions of members of your human race join you.
Reacting to the blast of noise coming from millions of talking heads, even talking heads not from the media, are now the talking heads that have begun to use their PC for the media, and, the reaction is they've started to listen. The reactionary listening crowd, however, are the very ones who should be saying something, only they aren't, they've grown quiet waiting for someone else to say it for them. So take heart if you've pushed yourself into that silent place waiting for someone else to say it for you, billions of members of the human race are right there with you.

Two camps of behavior, and it vacillates between the actions, so that on any given day a person may be blasting away, when they ought to listen, and some will be listening when they ought to speak. Is there a solution to this situation? If there was, would you use it? If it turns out that none is available, you're not gonna be despondent, are you?

Those sorts of teasing retort to the average person have little meaning, they don't contemplate what is taking place, and they are reacting to the input. If there is a deduction which can be made from the 80/20 rule (20 percent are doers, 80 percent are not doers) it is that on any given day the 20 percent who have committed an action, will give the 80 percent something to discuss about it. The difficulty in our modern age is the miniscule scale of involvement where something becomes newsworthy. Just twenty years ago a school fight in a local high school wouldn't have been on any news, except perhaps the local paper. Yet such miniscule events are now projected on world scale news programs- no wonder people are wondering when they should speak and when they should listen, and no wonder they are confused about which is which.

Now you ask about a solution, when can a person know what is correct, to speak or to listen? One of the best clues comes from a savvy but ancient source which says that we have two ears and one mouth. We all know that "a man is thought wise until he opens his mouth and proves otherwise" -Lincoln. We live in a time when you can not only say what you believe, you can put media to that, broadcast it world wide, and it can have a positive, or a negative impact, so the magnitude of the choice has gone up, but should you succumb to the pressure not to participate in transmitting ideas, simply because they may not be liked? As in so many things that we do, the choice, will be yours.