One. Words are powerful. If I didn’t believe that, I wouldn’t write to you everyday. But they aren’t magical. One of the longest, slowest lessons of my life has been how to not be superstitious about my words.
Err....Abracadabra?? That's a literal magic word with real powers..... All joking apart - In a previous life I had people coming at me speaking words into my life! "Phil, I speak peace into your life." Those words would have had more power and helpfulness if the reason for my lack of peace, i.e. that same person, took a hike....Express your words for sure, but pay attention to the context too.
Yes, I’ve thought about the context quite a few times since I wrote this. I think I should have put a qualifier in – something like: maybe try not to express your frustration AT someone else. Because that can look and feel an awful lot like being a jerk.
Heavy rain and intermittent reception has me choosing my words carefully. I may only get one word in before I get bounced off. So, I remember my first “f” bomb 💣. I had not sworn before but I had graduated high school that night. My friend had a car and picked me up to go out driving around. Remember driving around going nowhere but it was exciting? Well, we both screamed f at the top of our lungs! Then laughed about it and that was it. I learned for 7 years how to cuss. Then I was born again and stopped cussing. Last year, I chose to cuss privately and see how it relieved me instead of withholding the aggravation. It works. However, I am a wordsmith that has a plethora of great non cuss words that do me good too. I make words up like this morning wrangling the fitted sheet on the queen memory foam mattress in the rv bed. I had a full body workout accomplishing the remaking of the bed. Then it’s funny and I crack myself up. £€%#=+€#% words……………….
Err....Abracadabra?? That's a literal magic word with real powers..... All joking apart - In a previous life I had people coming at me speaking words into my life! "Phil, I speak peace into your life." Those words would have had more power and helpfulness if the reason for my lack of peace, i.e. that same person, took a hike....Express your words for sure, but pay attention to the context too.
Yes, I’ve thought about the context quite a few times since I wrote this. I think I should have put a qualifier in – something like: maybe try not to express your frustration AT someone else. Because that can look and feel an awful lot like being a jerk.
Heavy rain and intermittent reception has me choosing my words carefully. I may only get one word in before I get bounced off. So, I remember my first “f” bomb 💣. I had not sworn before but I had graduated high school that night. My friend had a car and picked me up to go out driving around. Remember driving around going nowhere but it was exciting? Well, we both screamed f at the top of our lungs! Then laughed about it and that was it. I learned for 7 years how to cuss. Then I was born again and stopped cussing. Last year, I chose to cuss privately and see how it relieved me instead of withholding the aggravation. It works. However, I am a wordsmith that has a plethora of great non cuss words that do me good too. I make words up like this morning wrangling the fitted sheet on the queen memory foam mattress in the rv bed. I had a full body workout accomplishing the remaking of the bed. Then it’s funny and I crack myself up. £€%#=+€#% words……………….