Quote and Reflection

Katie Hines

10/14/2012

Block 4

Quote About Life and Reflection

 Silence is more musical than any song.  ~Christina Rossetti 

                All of my life, I have been a quiet person. I do not call out in class or fill conversations with meaningless chatter. I feel that words are words, no sense in wasting them. My father is the same way. When driving down to the stables or back from the beach on a cool evening, we do not need sentences or phrases to fill in the spaces, like my mother. She simply cannot be comfortable without spouting out things to be sure we are not upset with her, because after all, why else would we be silent? Sometimes, the deepest and loudest sentences are spoken without words. Some things just cannot be said.

                 What talkative people do not realize, is that simply because I do not say much, does not mean I do not listen. I listen, I really listen. I listen to the spaces between sentences, the words not spoken. I notice the slight body language and change in tone of voice. When I do speak, raise my voice release my musical song, it is a melody, and it is not meaningless. When I talk, I do not chatter. When I laugh, it is not empty. My life may be quiet, but it is real.