There is a virtue in knowing when to hold your tongue. There are moments in your life that will incite a hurricane of emotions so powerful, that the words spurred by the storm raging inside have the same devastating impact on those around you as a natural disaster. There will also be moments when you recognize that the destructive forces of an emotional cyclone are disproportionate to the situation and that choosing not to hurl the first anger-induced thought into the wind is to everyone's benefit. Mastery of the latter is a skill that comes through practice and earnest effort. For me, it became something that I practiced so often that it turned into a bad habit. There is a virtue in knowing when to hold your tongue, but there is peace in knowing when to speak your truth.