I admit there are times that it is difficult not to say anything. You know, the times when know you shouldn’t say anything, and yet, you find your lips moving and sounds coming from them.
I make every effort to keep my lips sealed together especially when I have an urge to say something about something that may come across as lecturing or as a Ms.-know-it-all. But, my efforts are easily shoved aside as my mind convinces me that if I don’t say anything the world will fall off its rotation! And the world, as I know it, would cease to exist. Why is it that I think what I have to say is so damn important? Okay, that is a rhetorical question so please don’t answer it.
It’s bad enough that my lips think they are the boss of me, and with little regard for consequences. If the person I am
Back to the drawing board, creating silence, again.
I'm somewhat in the other direction because I have no idea that more than a very few other people would have the least interest whatsoever in my opinion about how they should think or behave. Of course, I could be projecting.
ReplyDeleteI seem to have a flair for saying the wrong thing and so am practicing being aware of my thoughts before speaking. Occasionally, it works.
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