We say a lot of things that we do not mean and do many things that we do not say. What we say may not be relevant in just two years, what more a lifetime. It is ironic that since most of the human interaction is based on verbal communications, we still cannot trust what we say. Are they just smokescreens for us to achieve our desires at all cost? Do we promise the moon and the stars, without mentioning the fine prints, just to get things our way?The direction of society and our lives is guided by our art of persuasion in debates and speech, but yet verbal communications are just fillers to decorate our lives; an exercise in creative writing to trigger the limbic system to immerse the brain in euphoria. One wonders if speech is relevant anymore.
Maybe it is time for us to periodically reassess our promises. Like at the end of a rotation duty of a security officer who plays back the closed-circuit recordings of the night before, perhaps we should be doing the same. We should put an interval upon which we should assess and re-assess what we had set out to do in our lives. Sometimes, we would look back at the promises of the past, laugh it off as a jest of the spring of youth which mellowed down with the lessons of the School of Hard Knocks. Unfortunately, sometimes the whole spectre of our existence may have stemmed from our earlier rhetoric. Could we be punished for our blabber during our innocence?
Like an episode in Black Mirror where computer chips are implanted at the back of the neck for people to rewind and reanalyse all their memories, do we need retrieval facilities to make culpable to whatever we say?
The best thing to do is strap our belts, avoid those potholes, keep our eyes on the road whilst at the same time enjoy the landscape, keep the hands tight on the steering wheel, follow the rules, enjoy the journey and re-live the trip every now and then even if we do not reach the intended destination.
So, speak for the sake of it. You would probably do not mean any of it, anyway!
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An intriguing topic. Being known as a very silent person, I have sometimes been in a place where I have said something without really knowing the impact or ramifications such a statement would make. I suppose the best route is transparency, although sometimes it might make us vulnerable, it helps the trust building process in the end.
ReplyDeleteIt is sometimes difficult to say whether what we say will be construed in the correct. People are very fickle. The same lips which praise you to high heavens will be the same one that spews profanities when things go against their wish!🗣
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