Say What You Mean, or Mean What You Say?

Mr. Tubby has this show of greeting people always with smiles, and flirting with women with his eyes, big-jerk grin, and words of praises. Once he saw Ms. Cynical and greeted her in front of Ms. Butty (the one he hankers after) with “You look prettier today, Ms. Cynical.” And the latter replied with, “Thank you, Mr. Handsome.” (They both don’t look either pretty or handsome.) Ms. Butty smiled to herself with the thought, “What poor creatures.”

Here is another one.

Mr. Crater believes this lie that women are after him. Being a widower, he resorted to illicit affairs with marrieds, widows, quickie relations, and those years younger than him. One day, he met a widow thru an online community. The woman happened to be a smart, successful but lonely lady. He got interested, being intelligent, too, with the exciting and impressive text messages and emails. The long distance communication resulted to an affair even without yet seeing each other. Mr. Crater did not forget to text words of love and did not fail to reply. Then the smart woman decided one day to send a picture. Mr. Crater lost his interest.

And another one.

Ms. Square is a married woman who toyed with online chatting treats. She met a guy on the net and developed this desire to always talk to him. The frequent ‘typing’ of erogenous words increased the desire of the man to meet with Ms. Square. Later, the man was telling ‘I love you’ to her. Weird it may seem to Ms. Square, she gave in to the requisites of the situation and later told him that she feels the same though not really convinced. The moment came when they had to meet, and it was the worst day for Ms. Square. She didn’t feel the excitement but a feeling of terror. The guy's not actually hideous nor's he that charming. But he had the air of a stranger that seemed incapable of loving.

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Say what you mean. Is that the same as meaning what you say? From the stories above, it just proves to say that some people do not mean what they say. The ‘I love you’ for example is a sacred word. But is misused for many reasons, and that usually is to the favor of the one uttering.

It is also easy to say ‘I am your friend’ but most of the time is very hard to prove. Friendship does not actually need confirmation. It is felt.

These days, words are becoming more untrue and unkind. People always say what they mean even if they hurt. On the other hand, some people hurt us because they do not mean what they say.

I choose that you mean what you say.