The POWER OF WORDS

Be Careful With What You Say

A few times in the past, I was counselled this way:  DON'T SAY ANYTHING YOU WILL HAVE TO APOLOGIZE FOR LATER.  And till to date, I think there's wisdom in that.  And indeed, that's a good reason to Be Careful With What You Say because there is NO 'edit' button on our conversations.  Words are the bells that CAN'T be muted.  You can try and walk things back, try and explain yourself and even try to justify the words you said BUT in the end, there's that POWER OF WORDS💚💛💜

As an afterthought, THAT comment, THAT remark, even THAT tone, it's all there.  Always.  And you DON'T want to be embarrassed later by WHAT you said at the moment.  BUT let's face it, there are other reasons besides avoiding embarrassment to watch WHAT we say.  Likely, there may be deeper reasons.  And probably some more important ones.  So, WHAT's next?  Let's spend a fraction of our time to dissect the words we uttered, we typed, we messaged in social media.  True, you can UNSEND that social media message BUT you CAN'T UNDO its impact💥💥💥

To be a bit poetic about this, our words are like water.  Water, being that stuff of life, it can also be incredibly destructive.  Similarly, our words are incredibly powerful to destroy OR build up, especially those WHO claim to love.  Through the years, I'll admit I did witness on a first-hand basis relationships that were so robust one day only to flounder come next day.  And the mother of all surprises hovers on the fact that there was NOT a tinge of an embedded friction OR even the slightest disconnect, NOT until the bomb blows up💧💧💧

True-ness.  WORDS ARE TOOLS.  WORDS are the very conduit and channels of communications.  Regardless as to how a relationship's health stands at the moment, it will always stand on the very core foundation, which WHEN concretized, it shapes up into WORDS.  I've witnessed interactions that were going back and forth smoothly until one of the parties unconsciously blurted quite a frank and sarcastic WORD.  From that point onwards, that discussion I was witnessing was teetering on the edge, WHEREIN one party was becoming guarded💢💢💢

Our takeaway:  Historically, the POWER of WORDS has been grossly underestimated such that most of us would commit recurring and sometime chronic lapses in the most unconscious manner, turning parties OR protagonists from unflappable ones to vulnerable ones.  WHAT is indeed regrettable here is that WORDS do not require financial outlays.  In English alone, the 550,000 reservoir of WORDS should give us NO excuse that we RAN OUT of WORDS OR that we just missed out on the synonym.  Apologies dude, there is NO UNDO in WORDS.  BE CAREFUL WITH WHAT YOU SAY in a consistent manner💦💦💦