What if everything you said was heard by everyone, everywhere?
And it was heard not through a barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world but rather told to all like a barely audible secret.
Would that change the way we speak if we knew this happened?
What if this was the case: your words bounce off of audible mirrors reflecting off of other mirrors eventually and inevitably circling back to the ears of the person you are talking about. Or the words come to the ears of that person who you secretly love but you only have the courage to talk about her to everyone else but her.
Think about it: everything always comes around, full circle, in the end. I suppose, at the end of the day, I am proposing an adjustment in lifestyle because everything you do all the time and everything you say effects everyone, everywhere. I am always so self-conscious to be with a group of people and right when two people of the group leave, the remaining folks start talking shit about those two who just left--what happens when I leave the room?!? Jesus! Do they talk smack about me when I am not here? What a terrible feeling.
[Again: are these insecurities that we point out in others merely insecurities that we hold within our own selves?]
What would happen if we just talked to people about how we felt? There would be so much more truth & honesty. Why don't we do this? Because of fear? Fear of being rejected, fear of failure, fear of being the odd kid in the room who doesn't quietly glide by to societal norms?
I don't know about you but a big fear of mine quickly takes form of a regret and that is the fear of not having taken a risk and yet seeing the opportunity pass directly in front of my eyes. Ah! How terrible! A missed opportunity! I regret it instantly!
Hopefully this is food for further thought: What if everything you said was heard by everyone, everywhere?
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