<p>Write about an issue or a situation when you remained silent, and explain how silence may speak in ways that you did or did not intend.</p>
<p>When the world around you seems to disappear and you enter a state of tranquility, silence is on longer what the dictionaries define it to be. It becomes a mere word and the pin-drop silence that others may see it to be is actually a noisy pressure cooker in your head. You are conversing in your mind with yourself and yes, you take on dual roles.</p>
<p>While I was walking on a street in New York City that was bustling with buyers haggling over the prices of different items, I was scanning through the area with one quick glance when three little boys dressed in rags caught my attention. Anyone would have overlooked them because of their small sizes and the chaos that was going on around them. However, their wandering eyes, quick hand signals, and short whispers amongst themselves made them a peculiar sight to me. What was it that they seemed to be planning so secretly? Before anything else could register in my mind, they had executed their scheme. Boldly, two of the boys walked right up to an old woman selling fruits and started a conversation while the smallest of the three ran and crouched under her cart. In a split second, he grabbed a bunch of bananas and a few apples with one swift gesture. He left as silently as he came and never looked back. I was dumbfounded and I stood there with my mouth agape. Before I even considered whether I should alert their victim, my feet were stuck to the ground and my slow reflexes were no match to the boys speedy escape.</p>
<p>I lost my voice and as silly as it sounds, there was something stuck on my throat that was preventing me from raising my voice. I was screaming shouting like a hooligan in my head but on the outside, my facial expression was frozen. My lips were sealed and from anyones point of view, it would have looked like I was fine with what I saw. I stood there, looking nonchalant, but in reality, I was simply in a state of shock. The silence gave a wrong impression of what I truly felt like when honestly, I was dumbfounded and nowhere near being okay with it.</p>