"If I Could Change One Thing"

If I have the chance to change one thing in my life. I would like to change my “silence.” The silence that I adopted at many important and critical moments in my life. When I should have spoken up expressed my feelings or raised my voice against something wrong. But I remained silent. There have been many times in my life. Where I have suppressed my feelings and remained silent thinking that maybe everything will get better with time. But in reality it did not.

I want to change all those moments. Where my silence made things more confusing instead of improving them. Sometimes Its hard to express my feelings out of fear. People might misunderstand me. They not give importance to what I said. But guys today I realize that my silence was my biggest mistake. If I had spoken up at that time I had spoken my heart out clearly. Then perhaps many relationships situations and decisions would have been different.

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I want to change my silence. Because it has broken me inside so many times alienated me from myself. And caused me pain that I would never wish on anyone. If there is one thing that can change. It is my silence which has influenced many of the decisions in my life.

I want to change my silence. Because it is the thing that created the most problems in my life. I often kept quiet in situations. Where I should have spoken up. I thought that keeping quiet would automatically fix things. But it did not. My silence exacerbated many problems instead of eliminating them.

The mistake was that I didn’t value my feelings. I tolerated people’s words and attitudes even though I should have reacted immediately. Many times people misunderstood me. Because of my silence and some relationships were strained. I didn’t speak up for my rights. Which made me suffer and sometimes hurt others unintentionally.

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The biggest mistake was that I did not trust myself. I thought that what I said did not matter. So it was better to keep quiet. But later I realized that silence is not always the solution. But sometimes it becomes the biggest loss. I want to change my silence. Because it taught me a lot and also took away a lot. If I had spoken up at that time I expressed my feelings wisely. Then perhaps many aspects of my life could have been better.

This experience taught me a very important and profound lesson in life that silence is not always strength. Sometimes silence becomes weakness especially when we do not speak up for our rights our feelings and our dignity. I learned that a person should speak up. Because if we do not speak up for ourselves no one else will. I also explained to myself that we should not trust everyone completely. Not everyone in life understands your feelings. That is why it is important to set our own boundaries. I also learn that mistakes are a part of life. But what really matters is what we learn from those mistakes , right?

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My silence also taught me. That keeping feelings inside only hurts. If we express our hearts properly many problems can end before they even begin. This experience become a lesson for me. That made me wiser and stronger.

Today I am not the person who remains silent on everything. These experiences in my life have made me a strong wise and self confident person. Now I understand my feelings and express them clearly when needed.

I have learned that self esteem is the most important thing. Now I do not allow anyone to consider my silence as my weakness. I have improved my thinking and my behavior by learning from my mistakes.

My silence has broken me and made me. But today I do not consider it my weakness but my teacher. Now I make every decision thoughtfully. I live my life with more awareness.

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If I can change the one thing in my life. It would be my silence. But perhaps this silence was also my biggest teacher that made me a better person today.

Thank you for being with me.

@m-princess

@steem4nigeria