
Quiet is killing our relationships. It’s not the comfortable silence stretching between two people comfortable in each other’s presence. It’s the silence of too much left unsaid. While we’re busy trying to deal with our emotions, the silence is severing our connections. Our relationships are bleeding out. In all our silence, we can’t get help for ourselves or for our relationships.
I said, “Joe, how does it make you feel
to know that our host only yesterday
may have made more money than your novel Catch-22
has earned in its entire history?”
And Joe said, “I’ve got something he can never have.”
And I said, “What on earth could that be, Joe?”
And Joe said, “The knowledge that I’ve got enough.”