oh be careful little....

I was watching some kids play in the park the other day and a few of them were singing an old children's song that goes: "Oh be careful little eyes what you see... Oh be careful little ears what you hear... for the Father up above is looking down in love; Oh be careful little lips what you say..." Life's funny like that huh? We are so often quick to judge what is it that we see, what is it that we hear and we are even quicker to retort, to snip and snap back, to blame, to curse, to threaten, to scold, to rave, to rant, to scream, demand, shout, to issue ultimatums... all forgetting to take stock of what it was that we ourselves had said and done that others had seen, heard and witnessed.

Its easy in life, really, to forget about ourselves sometimes. We go on the offensive and then when someone bites back, we forget the whole shennanigan started with us to begin with and we decry fairness, call for justice and demand for the worth of a name. Its a strange game we play. Some call it selective memory, others egocentric deafness, still more call it reverse verbal narcassism or even plain, old, forgetfulness.

Either term, the meaning is the same. Know what words it is that we have given breath; be wary of the snowballs we ourselves are guilty of building and setting in motion; be willing to take what comes may when we fail to follow the rules or life and being. As a wise friend of mine once said- be careful of the words you give breath to. For with the purchase of life, comes the harbringer of decay.

Einstein was right after all.