Choose Your Words Carefully

Our mouth tends to work faster than our brains. Our fingers do the same. We communicate, then we realize that we said something that we shouldn't have.

In instant communication like speech and text messaging, you will be largely screwed when that happens. Fortunately, writing is planned, so you can choose your words carefully.

Of course, you still have to have enough thought to actually do that, to read your words as though you were an outsider and think about how it might be interpreted. (You might also get a good editor who can do that for you.)

It truly amazes me how much difference it makes, saying something in one way or another. It is the power of words. Be careful with that power. It is very easy to harm yourself with it.