Complicity Is a Lie
Not every truth needs a witness to be real.
We’ve been taught that silence equals guilt — that not speaking up is an endorsement of what’s wrong. But sometimes silence isn’t agreement. It’s discernment.
What we see from the outside is only part of the story. There is a whole range of human emotion, pain, and understanding behind each word and action of every human being on the planet.
There is no experience that is as simple as what was said or done. Everything is far more complicated than that.
Reacting to external experience without fully understanding the thoughts and pain of each individual involved in that experience is simply adding more pain to an already difficult experience. It serves no purpose and solves nothing.
People spend far too much time making other people’s experiences about themselves. The experience, no matter what happened, was not about you. It had nothing to do with you.
Not saying anything about it doesn’t make you part of the problem. It actually shows you understand that your role is not to judge the experience of another person.
You don’t need to put your energy into other people’s experiences.
Sometimes silence isn’t avoidance. It’s respect. It’s awareness. It’s knowing that truth doesn’t need to be shouted by thousands of people to be heard and felt.