Mia: Don’t you hate that?
Vincent: Hate what?
Mia: Uncomfortable silences.
Mia: Why do we feel it’s necessary..to yak about bullshit in order to be comfortable?
Vincent: I don’t know,but it’s a good question.
Mia: That’s when you know you've found somebody really special…when you can just shut the fuck up for a minute…and comfortably share a silence.
Well, if you have seen the movie then you know that these are the lines from the movie ‘Pulp Fiction’, one of my favorites and whenever I watch this movie and hear these dialogue with the ‘lonesome town’ playing in the background of this scene, it makes me feel that the silence can’t possibly be described as boring. But recently, I've been told that I’m a boring person because I don’t talk much. Well I’m a man of few but meaningful words (most of the times), and I never realized that people can think of me as a boring man.Since this new unseen version of my personality has been put up into the light, I began to ask myself ‘am I really a boring person?’ It sort of shattered my idea of being mysterious by not yakking too much and being some sort of ‘Antarmukhi’, I don’t know the English word for this, people suggested the word ‘Introvert’ but I don’t think it quite fits in the context because introvert stands for a person who keeps to himself while I am not the same kind, it is just that I don’t like talking shit like few boys do and surely all the girls do (no offence though).I am not trying to say that people who talk more than usual always talk shit. All I am trying is to make a point in people’s head that a person can’t possibly be judged only by his/her capacity of making conversations with someone. We need to think beyond this way of defining somebody’s personality if we truly want to understand them. Sometimes, silence may seem like a flaw in the personality but it might be an important asset of the same.So if you've any thought in this context then please share it…I’d really appreciate it.
