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Unnecessary and Impermanence of speech

Purva Shoor
3 min readAug 19, 2024

Words spoken are unnecessary, but permanent; their essence is forgotten for they are impermanent in any context

Long back in their childhood, some boys wanted to go on a desert safari. Now its a vague reminiscence among them. They moved on. They are addicted to their greenspaces and clean office corridors. Nothing much other than this impresses them.

Similar things happen with speech related vigor, power and enforcement which become obsolete. Their impermanence makes them unnecessary also. Try this, everyday deliberately hinder your speech even if required, do not speak for 1 hour. Keep trying until you achieve this. You will find that the rest of the hours when you spoke were an unnecessary wastage of your energy. That 1 hour was the most productive hour of the day.

I was a quiet girl in my school life mostly. I started blabbering in higher secondary and graduation, bringing my cycle back to quietness unless asked or forced to speak when questioned.

When I wrote about intelligent work, I talked of focused, full hard working and smart attention to every detail in books for people pursuing medicine. If you keep speaking and doing work it hardly gets done.

There are exceptions though, visit a manufacturing unit in China. You will find women productively moving their hands and…

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Purva Shoor
Purva Shoor

Written by Purva Shoor

I am a doctor, writer and I write to inspire readers to think for themselves and light a candle in their niche for a perfect world around them.

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