For one thing, we do talk too much, don’t we?

And secondly, often times when we talk, we do so without thinking. We don’t use our head. We talk even when we have nothing interesting or helpful or even relevant to say.

For another, we are all very argumentative and often too judgmental. People today are driven by one-upmanship and are governed by more or less Western ideas of either you’re right or you’re wrong when, in the final analysis and when all is said and done, things are neither right nor wrong. They’re just the way they are. Anyways, today, the Western ideas of either you’re with us or you’re against us dominates the world. The traditional oriental tenets of both this and that (are all fine) have lost their way, so to speak.

For another, our opinion doesn’t matter. This is hard to take to most people I know. They think their opinion matters. In fact, they think only their opinion matters – but you get my point.

For yet another, we seldom speak without regretting it. I, for one, often make public comments in this column and regret it soon after. On politics especially, almost all my comments I regret later. I always find them quite distasteful, to speak the truth.

I find politics as a subject matter distasteful, that is.

I have more to say but, since we’re talking about learning to keep our own counsel, I’ll call it quits right here.

Now, media examples of people who keep their counsel and, for better or worse, speak not:

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