Silence - isn't it often misread?

I speak out of experience when I say silence happens to be the one thing that is often misread. The aftermath of the bungle you ask? Oh, that's a different story altogether! So, I supposed I could make an attempt to help remove the misconceptions that arise.

There's this silence out of indignance or displeasure..something that's scores better than picking up an argument, or worse, a fight! Very obviously, occurs when something isn't acceptable to one, while it could be to the other. What is it about a silent protest that gives an idea that it could be one out of arrogance? Be it on a small scale or a large one, silent protests are way better than violent ones, regardless of them being verbal or physical ones.

One more form is silence, whilst one is drowned in thought...those times when all that one prefers is to have pep talks with their own self, their conscience (trust me, they help a lot!) and there's a fair chance that people around you guesstimate you are depressed! Isn't a person entitled to some solitary time ever? While one's left without being bothered during other times, where's the necessity to interrupt during such times and end up making absurd conclusions?

There might be times when one prefers being silent out of sorrow (the reason's left to the viewers imagination) ...the times when one feels things couldn't turn any deal worse. All that one yearns for during those times is to be left alone for some time..that isn't an unreasonable thing to ask for, is it? So, where's the point in ignoring the "don’t interfere" sign that is so obvious and end up drawing conclusions about things that could possibly be unknown?

On a reminiscing note, there's this one other form of silence that dates back to our childhood, probably primary school days. There would have been such times when we would decide to be silent when there'd be no teacher in the class...and it was some sort of a telepathy, and the entire class would end up being silent for a change. How frustrating would it be when the teachers would suppose the reason for it was that we were guilty of some mischief!
A similar thing would happen back home, those occasions when siblings chose to hunch their backs over books, parents always surmised it had to have a motive behind..say, a broken lamp, a torn tablecloth, an so on., a sure consequence of sibling pettifoggery in the elders' absence. (Let's say that could have been the case sometimes, still, it isn't always the case, right? ;))

Apart from all the supposedly unpleasant things, I remember this thing mentioned in somebody's blog (if the person is a viewer of this post, my sincere apologies extended..in my defense, you don't own the copyrights to it :P). Anyway, it speaks about the beautiful song sung by Bryan Adams - "Please forgive me". The two shakes of silence just before he sings Please forgive me; I can't stop loving you ...that's absolutely entrancing! Each time you hear the song, you get transformed to a new place altogether.
(PS: The mention about the song had probably nothing to do with silence being misread, but these particular words were so beautiful that I couldn't hold myself back from publishing it here.)

That's about all I can recall at the moment. I hope this post is remembered when similar circumstances arise, and such things are avoided.
Also, can you people think of any such goof-ups? Feel free to leave a comment in any case.