Less Is More

…..silence was the language he embraced above all others, and he instinctively understood that a dearth of words spoke far more forcefully and elicited much greater attention than loquaciousness and a raft of long-winded soliloquies gushering forth from low-horsepower, half-empty minds.  And hence he never opened his mouth unless he had something authentically important to say, even as he risked being drowned each day in a tumultuous sea of words spewed into the surrounding atmosphere by those around him who were markedly less confident in their abilities and therefore sought to compensate for this deficiency the only way they knew how.  He had been taught from a tender age by canny parents that empty wagons rattle the loudest, and every succeeding day now brought forth further irrefutable evidence of this sage adage…..