At college, a girl never spoke to our teacher, and everyone assumed she was simply shy, until he angrily asked why she never talked.She calmly walked to the board and wrote, “I lost my voice in an accident two years ago, but that doesn’t mean I have nothing to say.”
Then she wrote, “Most people don’t ask. They just assume,” leaving the entire classroom silent and ashamed of their assumptions.
From that day on, we learned to communicate differently, and she taught us that sometimes the quietest voice can leave the most powerful lesson.
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