Words are a powerful tool used to invoke incantations; phrases such as:
"I love you.""I hate you.""I am enough.""Thank-you."These are simple, yet impactful examples of the power our words hold; it is our responsibility to take care of them. There are many resources available online regarding the power of language; it is my suggestion to read as many as you can. If you are not taking care of your words, they will take center stage and begin to control your life. One of the things I try not to do is compare myself to others. I used to do this, and I still sometimes do but I do my best to guard this behaviour. I look around and see so many people doing this to each other, to me, to themselves - and it doesn't lift any of us up. More recently I ran in to a few different situations which illustrate people not taking care of their words, but this one seemed to be a good example:
- I was complaining to an acquaintance about how tired I had been since not getting near enough sleep for the eight months of being in school and how I had been sleeping a lot to catch up. Without skipping a beat she proceeded to scoff at me and brag about how she only gets six hours of sleep a night, and my eight months of school is nothing compared to her four years; she continued to suggest that I am less than her, in various ways. I rebuffed with the obvious fact that there is so much more than a matter of how many hours each of us sleep. There are similarities in our lives, such as we are both single parents, we both work hard in addition to going to school, and we both volunteer in our community. What she was missing; she has far more support than I do, in order to make as much money as she does I had to work twice as many jobs, I am a writer working hard to get my career as such off the ground and she doesn't have such endeavors, she has a vehicle and I don't which makes a huge time difference, she only has one child and I have several, and I help my daughter with her business.
The fact is, I would never tell her that she isn't doing a good job, and that she is or isn't getting enough sleep. In fact, I would never tell her or anybody else my opinion about their lives. I don't compare myself to others - actually, I do, but I don't do it to make them feel like they are, or are not, doing well enough. How I compare myself to them is to work out parts of me that I see as flaws. On a side note, some of my children would disagree and say I compare to make them feel a certain way but someday they will understand.When we decide we need to compare ourselves to someone else, to attempt to make them feel lower than us, we are not doing so because of who they are, or are not. We are doing it because of who we are not. When we use low vibration words, or ill intended banter, we are, in fact, speaking volumes about who we are.
| About Jason White |
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| Jason White is a father, a grandfather, knowledge seeker and sharer. Jason is the owner of Growth Positive Consulting where he puts his fundraising and management skills to great use. He is a writer, a woodworker, and a philanthropist. Find him here:facebook: @JasonLWhiteAuthortwitter: @ChiiMakwainstagram: @Chii_Makwa patreon: https://www.patreon.com/JasonLWhite You can also donate to Jason through PayPal at paypal.me/jasonlwhiteauthor |
