I’m finding out (the hard way), that it’s so often what we SAY, not what we think or feel or even do, that matters. Words hurt, words love, words reveal. We say “that’s not what I meant” as easily as we breathe, we speak in anger and wonder if it is our overheated emotions or our real feelings that send words flying.
Everyone knows that just as you can’t take back a kiss or a kick, you can’t take back words. And perhaps just as importantly, you can’t take back the silence of words never said.
As the great poet John Mayer says: “Say what you mean to say.”
Sometimes, John, that takes awhile to work out.
This blog is an exercise, born of a post comment left by a friend. I’m going to try and reproduce a bit of dialogue every day and see what happens. Maybe it will help me remember moments and learn from a few of them. Maybe John Mayer will show up and hang out on the curb in front of my house.
