Thoughts

Why do we speak?‎

It’s a great question.‎

I have no answer, and anyway I like questions more than answers, these days.‎

But I have some thoughts.

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We speak because we want to communicate. We want to share our thoughts and ‎feelings. We want empathy and sympathy. Maybe we simply speak because we want ‎help; we want to know that we are not alone.‎

I’m very emotional these days, so I think about the emotional aspect of it…‎

But as a scientist I think that we speak also to develop our intellect. Develop ideas…‎

But let us forget about science for now.‎

In Hebrew we have a phrase: A loud silence.‎

It means that people don’t speak with each other when they actually have a lot to ‎say. There is tension between them and they don’t find the right words to say, or just ‎don’t want to speak. Maybe they are afraid of the results.‎

On the other hand, our best friends are those with whom we can sit silently for hours ‎and feel relaxed and comfortable. So actually, when someone is close to you, it’s not ‎important if you speak or not, as long as you are together. Some people would say ‎that even together is not important, only the love… (or that “together” doesn’t mean ‎in space, it means in the heart…).‎

(a replay letter to a student)