Chatter

Learn to quite the mind.

I remember having a t-shirt, long-sleeved, with a red telephone on a pole and the wordings Chatterbox on it. I do not remember how long I had it for but I do remember I liked it a lot. Perhaps it was because I was so talkative my parents literally labelled me as a Chatterbox.

There is nothing wrong with being talkative. A chatty child may be talking a lot of nonsensible words or broken sentences but we can never tell if this is a gift. Children have a clear mind. They are the future. It is only right to nurture them to become an outspoken person. With positive thinking, the child now may be the Tony Robbins in future.

While chatter is a good thing to many, it can also be something that others despise. There are people who only talk about imaginary events happening in their lives. Perhaps it would be great to make into a movie but it is not so great to point fingers and make others look bad. We all live our own lives. We are at no position to bad talk about other people just because they do not live the way we expect them to.

Complaining about others with pointless views is as good as killing the person. Some people just enjoy making fun of others. While it may be just for a good laugh but we have to be sensitive enough to understand if the person is okay with our jokes about them. People nowadays face more stress and end up being depressed without any symptoms. One wrong joke about the person and we will regret for the rest of our lives.

This is not to deter anyone from being opinionated. It is just a reminder that we have to be responsible for every word that comes out of our mouth.

I remember seeing a very interesting short animation. A bird was feeling a little sick on the ground. A cow ate grass nearby and dropped dung over the little bird. Though it smells horrible, the dung kept the bird warm and safe from harm. It took the bird a little time to heal and when all is well, the bird made its way out. Upon seeing the bright day after hiding under dark for some time, the bird is delighted and started singing. A hungry passing by cat noticed the happy bird and ate it with no mercy.

Lesson of the story – when shit happens, it is not always bad. When we are in deep shit, it is time to stop and learn. Just lay low, keep quiet, and prepare ourselves for the days to come. There is no need to announce to the whole world that we just got out of shit.

Humans are not the only beings that chatter. Many other animals can do that too. The birds outside have been chattering the whole morning. I do not understand their language but I do know that birds are great divas. They light up my day. They bring love and joy to their surroundings.

No matter how happy birds make me feel, there are always people that think otherwise. There are people who would complain about anything under the sky. I have heard people say that the birds are singing way too early, as early as four in the morning. They are light sleepers and it is difficult for them to get a good rest. While many think that this may be just the way they are, I feel that there is a reason and a solution for everything.

We have to be patient enough to spend time understanding ourselves. Most often, we are too hard-fixed on our daily lives we think that life is as such, that there is no way anything can be changed. If we are to open our minds, there is always a different path for us to choose from. It may not be laid out nicely with golden bricks. It may be a rough off-course trail. If we never try, we never know. We may find a rainbow at the end of the path.

When we are calm within, all the chatter in the world mean nothing.

 

We live in such an age of chatter and distraction. Everything is a challenge for the ears and eyes.

Rebecca Pidgeon, American actress, 1965-Present