What stings the most?

Just some late night food for thought after seeing an image on a social media platform..

As humans, do we think of the consequences before we say or do something? For the most part, I don’t think very much. In today’s new age society, we are surrounded by a never ending thesaurus of words. Words that are used often, but yet few know the meaning/severity of them. Instead of making sure that the words we use are what we really mean, we continue to throw them about weightlessly like they don’t count for anything.

What happens? People get hurt and misunderstanding arises. It’s like a group of kids insulting a fellow child’s father, but what they don’t know is that the child comes from a broken family whose father has walked out long ago. What seems to be normal to have in this case actually turns out to be something completely opposite. And if we put ourselves in the orphaned child’s shoes, how would we feel? Definitely hurt, right?

If mere words alone have the potential to cause such unsettlement, what then the consequences of actions? From observation, people learn the valuable lessons the hard way most of the time. They get hit in the face by the sheer reality of what they have done, only after it has been done. But when damage is done, can it be repaired? Personally, I think damage can never be repaired, just patched up and sewn together by the passing of time, till other things are there to fill up the gaps that were once present.

Words thrown out can never be taken back, but I guess tears cried can never be collected back as well. Two sides to a coin, but at any one time, it can only settle on one side. If only words exchanged were kinder, our actions were more genuine, gestures more intentional, maybe everything would be different.

27th August, 2012.

Sometimes, maybe we all need to stop judging one another, and observe the things that cannot be looked at instead. Maybe then we can feel the beauty of what's invisible, rather than branding our opinions on only the tangible stuff.