The Sounds of Silence

The classical song entitled The Sounds of Silence by Paul Simon talks about the usual sickness of almost all people. It depicts the complexity of reality and life itself, which is constantly happening to our present life situation. The common illness of most individual is that they tend to hear rather than listen and talk rather than speak. In my realization the persona in the song was not happy, his heart is full of sorrows and burden that puts him in vain. If we'll try to internalize the message of the song, the persona was talking to numerous of people who are numb and careless to what was constantly happening around them. The prime problem is that people nowadays tends to be passive, they just hear which implies using only the auditory organ instead of listening which is internalizing what was being said and they just ignore the things which might be important to them. Almost people are not bothered by just letting things happen as it is, without doing something that could be more purposeful and productive. It is because people are afraid of letting their voice out.
I believe that change start within ourselves because change is self-initiated.If we want changes to occur , then we must do something and work on it to come up with the desired outcome. We should keep in mind that change should always be for the better. We cannot keep on telling other people to change because no matter how many time we tried to tell about a certain thing if they themselves do not make their own moves or think their own way that would be of no value we should not overdo doing it, its enough that we have told them several time they are still the one who will do the decision for themselves . We should not let ourselves decide for others and we should not also let other decide for us. We have our freedom of expression and we are free to exercise it but it should be in accordance to our limitations.