Before there were words there was body language, which, at times, is given more meaning than speaking. Those who wish to understand listen not only with their ears, but also with their eyes, with their nose and fingers. Your elbow will find a place to rest on its own, but society will link that posture to the immeasurable movements of your mind. Whether right or wrong you will be judged, and you will make choices, and those choices will have consequences. If you choose not to speak you will be displaying the power of one human being, this power that ignores the hundreds dying of hunger in your third world country because the rebels of your party aren’t letting food get past the border. That food, that nourishment that your people are lacking, will rot, and so will our hearts. For there are billions who cannot convince you to speak—only you posses that power—you are the individual that can change the world.
One would think that democracy was a flawed government, or that the voters were not mature enough to understand, accept that there will be losses. One mans victory is also his death, and his empty belly. Odinga and Kibaki were not speaking; they would sit in a room together for hours, and say not a single word. How is peace to come without resolution? How is change to come without incentive? And what a time for hardship, the rich will become poorer, and the poor will sicken and die. Even after the fighting is over times still moves, and stocks still go up and down; but there will be no more tourists to feed the hotels and street vendors of Kenya unstable American dollars. There will be less aid coming from the Pax Americana that the world is today. But perhaps we have matured, perhaps it is time for change.
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