One good thought: Talk

“For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind’s greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn’t have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking.”
― Stephen Hawking

Sometimes I think that this world has forgotten how to talk. And I mean really talk. About how we feel. About what we want. About who we really are. Things get left unsaid and instead we fill silences talking about the mundane, the socially acceptable, the polite, the ‘right thing to say’. Sometimes I feel like screaming out that it’s time to let rip! It’s time to have a real opinion, it’s time to tell the truth, it’s time to connect beyond internet pages and computer screens. It’s time to talk about the things that make us afraid so we can conquer them, the decisions that we are scared about so we can finally make them, the dreams we don’t deem important so that we can finally realise they are possible. It’s time to stop nodding our heads even though we don’t agree, it’s time to go up to that girl or guy and tell them how you feel, it’s time to realise that if you don’t say what you’re thinking, you moment will slip away and you might have lost the best opportunity of your life.

It’s time for a lot of things I think. There are so many changes that need to be made to this world, so many improvements, so many things that need to be re-evaluated and so many realisations to be made of how exactly we need to be treating each other. But we can only make those changes one step at a time. So this is one of those steps. Go out today and if there is anything on your mind that you are worrying about, decisions that need to be made, stories that need to be told, and news that needs to be shared, go out and share them! Talk about what is going on deep within you, your biggest fears and hopes for the future. Remind yourself of the things that you are desperate to achieve in your life but have somehow forgotten to pursue. Just talk. Talk until the sun comes up on the horizon. Talk to yourself, even when no one’s around. Talk to your dog, or your cat, or your handsome parrot. Talk to the car door handle and the neighbor’s fence. Just keep talking. It may open up things inside you that you didn’t even know were there 🙂

See you tomorrow! ♥