If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say that you enjoyed it

Silence is often romanticised as strength, but in reality, silence can also become a weapon used against the very person who chooses it. When suffering is swallowed instead of spoken, the world assumes that everything is fine. Pain that is hidden slowly becomes a story others rewrite in their own favour. And the most dangerous part is not the suffering itself, but the narrative that forms around it — a narrative built by those who inflicted the hurt in the first place.

When you do not speak about your wounds, people begin to believe you were never wounded. When you do not show your bruises, they claim there were none. And when you do not challenge the injustice done to you, they confidently declare that you agreed to it, accepted it, or worse — that you wanted it. Your silence becomes their shield, their justification, their alibi.

History is filled with the voices of the oppressed being overwritten by the voices of the powerful. Entire communities were exploited, but their pain was erased because they lacked the space to speak. Families have carried generational trauma because someone long ago was forced into silence. Even today, survivors of violence, discrimination, betrayal, or emotional abuse often remain quiet — out of fear, shame, or exhaustion — and the world takes advantage of that silence to build a false truth.

Speaking out is not about seeking sympathy; it is about reclaiming your story. It is about refusing to let your suffering be painted as your choice. Your voice is the only witness that can testify to your reality. And even if it trembles, even if it cracks, even if the world tries to dismiss it — it is stronger than silence.

Because silence may protect you for a moment, but in the long run, it destroys you. It gives your oppressors the power to rewrite your past and shape your future. But when you speak, you reclaim that power. You show the world that pain was inflicted, not imagined. That injustice happened, not invented. That you endured, not enjoyed.

So speak. Not because others will always listen, but because your truth deserves to exist. Because your pain deserves acknowledgement. Because your story deserves to be told by you — not by those who hurt you.

Break the silence before the silence breaks you.