I so enjoy not speaking every day…it is so natural…I love silence…sometimes I might have just 15 minutes of speech in a week…it is more rare that I do not speak than I do speak and I love that…I exchange messages with people online daily…but its not the same…
I communicate, I express that’s different… speaking, communication, expression are separate things…I love being able to communicate in various ways without the movement of my lips…that can be beautiful too yes, but there is so much more…so much more…speech is simply one way…a beautiful way but not the way…
There are so many ways of communicating with the other…through a glance…a movement…a song…a common joy…touch…skin to skin…through a concept…through written word…its endless…there is a unique communication that takes place with each unique other…It can come in many forms…
Me and Simba (the foxy cat) can communicate, connect with each other, be with each other without the need for speech…me and the stream I love so dearly can commucante without the need for words…me and life can communicate without the need for speech…communication can come just by being…by feeling…being there present with life…
observing…listening…sound is not limited through speech…
I take in the other through their entire body…by feeling them…taking in all of them not just their words…what they are saying with their mouth doesn’t always matter…its about what I am hearing through their entire body…
Communication and expression is so much more… we are always communicating with all that is around us…taking in and putting out…we are communicating with all that is around us…moving with all that is around us…there is so much more…
We can communicate through silence…but there is never really silence for me only in speech…I am always listening…
There is so much more…