do we try to make ourselves bigger with our talk?
sometimes i feel like evry other word in a sentence is an adjective describing how big, bad, wonderful, horrible or fun something is. i love adjectives, but they should be the spice in a conversation, not the main point.
we try to make everything sound cool. we over exaggerate. or under exaggerate. anything for our benefit.
we promise, we swear and assure each other about stuff. and it's great. but what happened to just yes and no. i will or i won't.
what if you would use your words in a way so that when you use the words "Yes it was great" it carries the weight that great is supposed to carry and we wouldn't need ten other adjectives to prove the point. we wouldn't need to prove anything. we would just speak and mean what we say.
like i said, i love adjectives and by all means we should keep using them and keep inventing new ones. but we should mean what we say. and our words could carry more weight.
don't you have those people around you that just over exaggerates all the time? everything their doing is always awesome? but what does awesome mean to them? and what does awesome mean to you? you usually measure words on the same scale as those around you that you hang out with. and when you put another group of friends on the scale it says something completely different. maybe that's why there are so many missunderstandings in life? we speak the same language, but can the weight of the words be so different that the language is not the same anymore?
"It was said to the people long ago: "Do not break your oath but fulfill to the Lord the vows you have made:" But I tell you, do not swear an oath at all..... All you need to say is simply yes or no, anything beyond this comes from the evil one." - Matt 5:33-34, 37
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