Be Careful with Your Words

The External Words that you speak, can quite possibly become the Internal Words of another.

As the speaker, we do not get to choose which spoken words are internalised by others. We only get to choose the words that conjure and release.

For the person who receives the words, who clings to the words, who believes the words. The potential poison that you have spoken, intended or not, could become their inner dialogue. The words which become the wardrobe of their soul. When one associates their inner invoice with their indentity and their true being, one begins to live their life as if they are simply playing out a self fulfilling prophecy.

If you have told someone that they are, “stupid”, even in jest; they may begin to lack focus, to find their memory is waning, to binge watch TV instead of reading books because “what is the point?” Their identity has been shaped by a loaded hammer and chisel.

If you tell a child that they cannot sing, they will give up on music.
If you tell a child that they cannot draw, they will never try their hand at art.
If you tell a child that they are not great at sport, their dreams of being an athlete will never eventuate.

Words are the wardrobe of the soul.
They shape one’s Identity.
Be Careful with your External Words as they may become the Internal Words of another.