Silence
Being silent is the choicest suffering that you can inflict on someone. How often our loved ones resort to it, and disarm us. When people harbour enimity against each other, the silence pricks; and when there is love between them, the silence soothes. It is said, "True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable." Silence is called the great art of conversation. Thinkers are struck with its soulfulness and profundity. Story is told of Confucius that one morning he was accompanied by his friend's friend on a walk since the common friend, Confucius' daily companion, was unwell. On reaching the mountain-top, the only words this man uttered, in the entire journey, were, "How beautiful is the weather out here!" Confucius later complained to his friend that the man talked a lot and spoke the obvious! Confucius was trotting the mountain alone the next day. There are occasions when silence comes to us naturally. But, we do not grace ourselv