So to speak, is to be heard. To be heard is to be known. To be known for something with a description gives proof of some kind of meaning, no matter if you puncture the heart of gold or smolder under the might of the shadows.
So, to speak a word, would you mean what you say? Do you even know what the word could mean to what is prowling around the world around you. Maybe you do, maybe you don't ... but for the while you read this, we will delve into the motion of what could be behind the words that are said, specifically the following:
freedom
faith/hope
racist
rape
So to say freedom, what is the feeling that is conjured in you, think about the two sides that are faced with just flinging something around like it weighed less than paper. On the one side, what is conjured if the word 'FREEDOM' is spoken of someone that takes it for granted, just placing it in the crowd like it is on a factory line ready to be a part of a mundane phrase. Like most Americans, freedom is left in the sights of mass media and consumerism when you don't know what struggles lay behind the product of your boombox or that new pair of high heels. On the other side, when speaking the word 'FREEDOM' to someone outside the states, it stirs a moment to dream of a better life. This word moves stronger in someone that breathes for a chance to speak with free thought and words but are thrown into turmoil like the People of Burma or blocked out like the Censorship in China. Take a minute to think what that single word has done for the past, present and maybe the coming future:
French Revolution
American Revolution
India breaking away from the UK
The Tearing of the Berlin Wall
The future holds many new places for freedom in such place like Latin America and Asia, but the word you speak, think about it what you are saying.
Leaning into freedom, people could speak of faith and hope. The conjure of the notion of having faith in some power or hope of something better could bring a chance forward to some light, or a chance to redeem someone or others. This is a good thing, in some sense of the word. The words of faith and hope, that are spoken for greatness is also present in the thoughts of the opposed. The thought of stories of morals and powers that flow are used also to bend a truth for a cause of selfishness and greed. We forget about the things faith has caused, like it's hand in the middle ages, the leading of The Crusades and a badge of honor to commit terrorism. Maybe their is good to have hope for a future and have faith in some kind of messiah, god or a master's teachings, but think about what it means to push someone into acceptance when you're shown one side and forget the other side of history. It is a blind eye that is turned in people that use faith as an excuse to kill and take a chance to take out someone's culture, but for the Yin, there is the Yang. Excuses are a double-edge sword, faith rides on the lines of words, so what's to say that it is right or wrong in the end?
From divisions of faith, there is another strong word from most culture that cause division: racist. It is like superglue, you speak it of someone, it never leaves them. There will always be that perception stirred in the ignorant and no one will want to be around the profound bigot. You look at them with a different eye, and probably alienate them and lead to another lesser form of badgering and turn into the prejudice ones. Maybe there was a reason to act on the racist thought, but the facts to profess someone a racist, do you think to analyze why you speak it in the first place. The meaning of it is someone with the opposition based on color. So do you jump to the conclusion of calling someone in spite of any knowledge of your moral ground. Do you think to realize, there is something behind your opposition when speaking the word racist. So what's to say you aren't a racist. Maybe the second you see a crowd of a certain race, you assume trouble. Maybe the minute you walk in a high scale neighborhood, you're assumption is not to find certain things or people there. Everyone has the right to live anywhere and do anything, judge the content of character fair sir, which you aren't. Do you think about that? NO ... so practically, calling you the racist is better left to be said.
What's to say, in any word. A proof could be in a very strong, abused word: rape. Scream it in the middle of the night, and get away from a real treacherous plot. Scream it without knowing the situation, and someone innocent of the crime could be plagued for it forever for false accusation. Rape is conjured for the worst of the worst to the abuse of something that is only meant for the harness of crimes. Innocence is something that could never return, but remember when it's spoken, it last forever. Innocence could be blamed even for a touch on the shoulder, and then you could be labeled a rapist by the stroke of a fallible mind. Watch when spoken, it could mean a label you wish you could regret.
So what's to say in a word, what's to say anything without proof of purchase, sanction of the meaning, or lacing of a chord. Learn what to say, use the mind of choice and know, you can't take back that word. It may be last thing said ... or the best speech you ever made.
- ... SA
