Keeping Quiet . . . for what?

Today I found a new Sara Bareilles song that I've fallen in love with—so much so that I actually bought it on iTunes (this rarely happens!). The song is Brave from her album The Blessed Unrest. In the song she sings about not letting people abuse you with their words and what would happen if you stood up for yourself and said what you need to say.

In my short life and in my even shorter life in the working world and in my EVEN shorter life of watching TV shows like Suits, I've realized that people keep quiet about a lot of things they shouldn't because they don't want to lose their jobs, opportunities at their jobs, or their status in life. It's quite sad really, that people would live life controlled by other people and by their silence encourage the kind of behavior and practices that need to be investigated.

In the third verse of her song Sara sings,

"And since your history of silence

Won't do you any good,

Did you think it would?

Let your words be anything but empty

Why don't you tell them the truth?"

The last line of the song's chorus simply says, "Honestly I wanna see you be brave."

Honestly, I want to see people be brave.