Speak with Thought, Not Impulse

If you find yourself having a mind like me, I bet you’d never have peace of mind on most days. I’m that person who think everything to the tiniest detail. As much as I pay attention to the details do everything, I tend to overthink a lot of things.

Recently, I’ve been reflecting a lot on my life and my daily activities. And for the past two days something I don’t think I paid a lot of attention to hit me very hard, especially today. It’s something we do in our everyday life and as normal as it sounds, we wouldn’t really know how sometimes it affects others. The mouth as we all know is a very powerful thing and most of the time we are often told to watch what we say.

Aside the mute, we all talk everyday. There’s no day we just wake up and decide to not talk. It’s a part of us. However, sometimes the words that come of our mouth tend to affect the people around us or whoever they are meant for. I say this because through my life, I’ve said things to people which I didn’t really mean to. Sometimes it was out of anger while other times it just happen to slip off.

We all make mistakes, no doubt. But if there’s one thing I know, it’s the fact that our mistakes shouldn’t be the reason someone goes through pain. Words carry a lot of power and something you might say as a joke can go as far as ruining someone’s mental health. Today, I had an encounter with someone which didn’t sit very well with me. And as I got home , it just happen to slip back into my mind, having me think about it for sometimes.

We are all human and obviously, we all make mistakes. But there are some mistakes we can prevent from happening. Let’s not be the reason someone feels hurt or less of themselves. Let’s not be the reason someone sees the world badly. Let’s learn to be positive with our words. When you have nothing to say, it’s best you keep quiet.

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