How To Lose Friends And Alienate People

A phrase the children are indoctrinated with early on in life is "If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all." But if you're reading this blog, you're not a child and you know that sometimes it can be a greater disservice to someone to hold your tongue than to speak a harsh truth. Phrases that once gave the world clear blacks and whites have little significance in a world made up not only of shades of gray, but wild and unpredictable flashes of color. In this world, the black and whites are the accepted laws and extremes that govern us. Shades of gray are the subtle and slight variations and exceptions to those laws. The bouts of color represent the beliefs of man and their will to follow through with them. Like colors, we are all different, though some of us are more similar to one another. To disregard the subtle variances and say what you will is the surest way to incite anger, jealousy, and every other undesirable characteristic imaginable. Words are powerful tools, but they also make deadly weapons. Take great care just which ones you use and how.

Staring Over a Cliff

Throughout our lives we find ourselves at the edge of many metaphorical cliffs. Whether we look before we leap or not will differ from person to person and each given situation. But there are some cliffs that we come to that will cause even the most reckless person to pause, potentially life changing moments. And when the choice is yours what will you decide? To leap headfirst into the tumultuous sea of consequence or to simply walk on by knowing that you were either too afraid or too wise to jump. Unfortunately, the world has a habit of complicating even the most obvious decisions. You may hesitate on the cliff if you look below and see what seem to be happy, beautiful, people beckoning you to join their gaiety. But after jumping you realize that they and now you are all trapped in a pit to be drowned when the tide comes in. Such decisions are not to be made lightly, but take care not to remain indecisive or the edge may crumble underneath you dumping you unceremoniously into the frothy abyss. At the end of the day, your reward is how you feel about yourself. Will you say, "I looked temptation in the eye and turned away", or will you say, "I was just one sip away from being perfect?"