well being silent for a whole day was obviously a challenge since i love to talk. but there were still a bunch of things that happened that i knew would be a challenge i just hadn't actually lived them.
The point of the Vow of silence is pretty much to raise awareness and become more empathetic to the children around the world that can't freely speak up for them selves and that dont have the same oppurtunities as us. Doing the vow silent really did make me see things in a different way so i guess the idea of the day is a pretty good one.
I noticed that different people will react in a different way to you being silent. At guides I got a lot of ''oh that's really cool! You should talk about it to the girls next week'' from the leaders so they thought of it in a very positive way.
At guides we were making crafts so at my station with my friend Chelsea we were making snowmen on a kind of fat popsicle sick. I noticed that when interacting with the brownies (ages:7,8,9) i didnt need words. When one girl was looking around to find something to decorate her snowman with I grabbed the stickers and put them in front of her. I didn''t need to say anything. Whenever they were having difficulty glueing stuff on I would demonstrate how to do it and they would imitate me. When they finished there snowman they would come up to me and say '' im done! where do i put it?'' i would take there snowman and give them high five ad point them in the right direction of he next station. no words were necessary and they didnt seem to notice that I wasn't talking.
The guides (ages,10-12) noticed that i wasn't talking and they would say things like i won't clean up util you talk and they were all asking why i wasn't talking. By the end of the night half of my guides weren't talking cause they wanted to see how long they could do it for.
I also learnt yesterday all threw out the day that trying to tell someone something with hand gestures can become very challenging.
And I also wasn't able to defend myself properly. My voice is the thing I use the most often and it really comes in handy when i come to getting your point across.
People will also take advantage of you because you can't speak and they'll pretend they think you are trying to communicate something else so that what you gesturing is to there liking and they'll make fun of you and annoy cause they know you can't talk back. You lose power when your voice is gone and after living one day without my voice i realized how much power my voice brings me.
I was also surprised by the reaction vanessa got from her parents. I guess they just didnn't understand the challenge and the point of the vow of silence since they thought it was disrespecful to not speak. they disrespected vanessa and seans choice to be silent for one day for a good cause and i was surprised to see that opinion arise during the day. but i guess its just the perspective at what you look at something that'll make all the difference.
-posted at 4:35pm
-Sekoya
slush with skittles dinker here, i found it very interresing that day, like not being able to talk and tell people what you really meen, i found it hard. I had everything bottled up for only a day and it was challeging...
ReplyDeleteI don't know what i would do if i was like that for ever cause id never get the chance say anything like i was able to the next day!
ReplyDelete-Sekoya