Say Something, Say Something...Not Anything!

Look before you leap,
Think before you speak!

I have been wondering how many people actually think before they say something. I even did a small little research asking friends if they followed this principle. Well, the conclusion that I came to was that it was relative. Some thought sometimes before they opened their mouths and some thought sometimes after the deed was done.

A friend of mine who has a 'carved in stone' commandment that he doesn't think before he speaks, once told me that words had the capacity to inflict violence. If it comes to that, then why not do a little thinking first?
Naaaaah! It's a commandment, remember? Cannot be altered!

Do you know what happened with just a few careless words?

- A wife was sold
- A kingdom was lost
- A woman's virtue was harmed in public
- Brothers fought brothers relentlessly
- An old man had to sleep on a bed of arrows for days -

You know what I'm talking about.
Draupadi had laughed at Duryodhan when he was about to fall in a pool of water saying -
'You are blind like your father!'

Words! I wish she would have used her brains before blurting out such words of venom!

We would have had no Mahabharata.

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One n Only Oz said…
I guess the whole "mythological" concept of Mahabharata is tossed out of the window here. People even today are "leaping before they look" and "speaking before they think". So you still have those "characters" around you even today at least in action! But a very nice observation and very well put!
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