Today, he asks her one thing that has been pulling at his mind for a long while now. He asks her why she's always quiet. Why she rarely says much.
"The reason is as simple as that, you know," she tells him. "It's because every single person I have ever known in my life has never listened. And if they did, they never responded.
Of course, as time elapsed, I came to discover that maybe my words were of no relevance; of little importance. So it took a while, but eventually I learnt it was a better idea to keep my mouth shut."
