A silence can be as cruel and as cutting as an unkind word.Silence can save much pain,but it can give pain too.It is not always golden.It can be like iron,lying cold and heavy upon the heart.
''It is a mistake to let too long a silence fall between friends''.Life has a habit of rushing in like the tide and filling up the gaps with other things,so that the remembrance of those from whom we are parted by distance or by circumstances becomes fainter as time goes on.A silence can be like a death between friends,a grave in which love is buried and past felicity is put away and forgotten.
Never use silence as a weapon.Never use it to wound or punish.If you have quarelled with someone dear to you ,or some gulf of misunderstanding has opened out between you,do not relieve your feelings by indulging in an aggrieved and continued silence.Sometimes it is wise to let silence be felt,just long enough for feelings to cool and wiser thoughts prevail,but let it be a kind and not an unkind silence,and do not miss the moment for terminating it with a word,a gesture or letter.Love is too precious a thing to risk losing.Many a life has been made unhappy because somebody has been silent too long.lacking the generosity to make a move towards reconciliation.
