Responsibility in the Word - (4171)

This post comes from something I am currently working on. I have not by any stretch mastered it but I am trying to go towards that point.

I have observed this from a long time ago that certain people are very strong and seem to always come out on top in any kind of discussion or argument. I always wanted to know why.

One day not too long ago it dawned on me, that such a person is one that takes a higher degree of responsibilty in their written or spoken word. Plus they could have other qualities present and active in them but never mind about that. That's not the topic of this post.

I feel that to know that we are responsible for our word produces a change in us, and is actually very powerful because it calls us to be conscious of our word yes as expected but that's not really the important thing that it calls us to be conscious of.

I feel it calls us to be conscious of our psychological processes of which the word is the end result.

To be responsible for our word has to mean so many things as one can imagine. One of the things I see that it would mean out of the many is that we would be very alert of our inner processes that they be correct. Because if our thought and feeling are correct then our word will naturally be that way too.

Another thing is that what we say we will be responsible for the effects that they unfold. Another one is to not contradict our word. Another one is that we would take care that our spelling and grammar and way of speaking is correct so as to give a clear as possible protrayal of what we really mean and that it is receved clearly as well.

As we will also see the consequences that our word will unfold for ourselves and for others, responsiblilty of our word calls forsigfht into action. I mean to be responsible for our word we need some ability to look into the future to see what our words will unfold. If we are not happy with what our words could unfold the question naturally arises to ourselves, do we want to be responsible for those difficult consequences?

Responsibility with our word also calls us to correct what we have said if we have made errors.

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