Endless Echoes

TODAY'S QUOTE:
"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.".... Mother Teresa

The echo you leave behind is a true legacy to everyone encountered during a lifetime. It can either be sweet or bitter... fast or slow... harsh or gentle. Its flavor, tempo, and stroking style is always hand-picked by the speaker.
Kind words are easy to say and even easier to hear. They caress the weary. They lift up the downhearted. And long after you're gone they keep gifting the listener over and over as their memory replays them as needed for comfort or encouragement.

But it's not only the ones who hear that benefit; the echo lives on in you too. The joy received when positive input makes a difference to someone you touch is beyond description. And any negative orations inhabit you just as securely. If your life is somehow bitter look at the spices you're using to flavor your speech and alter it.

Words are powerful tools for good or ill. They continue stroking or kicking the ones they're aimed toward. Yet, too often people just let them erupt and spew without any forethought. When you hurt it doesn't ease your ache to inspire pain in someone else. And many innocent hearts have been shredded in that fashion.

Careless word use cause scars you might never even notice that you inflict. Slashing wounds that take years to heal, if they ever mend at all, are rarely the intention of any right-minded person. A lot of things said would be much better left as passing thoughts. Thinking before speaking is much more humane than simply opening the trap and letting the bull-shit monster loose upon humanity.

Echo with vibrations that sooth your own soul and wounding anyone else will be impossible. Reverberate through time and space long after you're gone with a sound you would be eager to hear over and over. Touch gently the heart strings you strum and be a symphony in perfect pitch. And as always.... think about it.... let it ride.... then you decide!!!!