Very good post.
Today on my walk there was an elderly man walking in front of me and he looked weary. - as I watched him, a thought crossed my mind as to how time erodes us and that he was once an innocent little child full of the joys of life - yet now there was no joy in his step and I wondered what life had dealt him to take away that joy.
we all make mistakes and over react sometimes - but I think it takes a special person to just "be still" before we speak or act.