Out of the Abundance of the Heart the Mouth Speaks

Well, as you can tell by now my blogs deal with emotions and interactions with other people. I am a firm believer that whatever is in your heart will eventually find it's way out of your mouth. In some regards, that could be a good thing. I think people need to learn to be more expressive. In an age of text messages, emails, and tweets I believe the art of conversation is slowly falling by the wayside.

Individuals would rather text or email as opposed to having a real conversation. I am sorry I don't think texting is a real conversation. How can you hear the emotion in some one's voice if you don't hear their voice? The deplorable truth is that some people carry on relationships this way. I don't know about anyone else, but I prefer to hear the baritone in my sweetheart's voice. It's calming. It's soothing. It is the music that tames the savage beast within me.

I know I am part of a dying breed. I still send thank you cards for gifts. I write notes and give special cards to the ones that I love. How did we as a people become so emotionally detached? When did this disease of emotional separatism creep in? I am personally going to continue to make time to have a real conversation. A real conversation for me is intoxicating. It is exhilarating. It does something to me to have a poignant conversation.

Moreover what I have resolved for myself this year is to mean what I say and say what I mean. However I may be feeling I am going to express it. I am not going to be offensive, however I will be intentional in what I say. How many times have we said to ourselves "I wish I would have told them...." whatever you neglected to say. I am attempting to live a life of no regrets and that means paying homage to those that it is due or scolding those that may be deserving of that as well. Whatever that case may be if it is in your heart it should come out. Don't hold on to it. You will feel ten thousand times lighter when you release something that you have been holding on to.

I feel so much better having released some emotional baggage that I carried around toward a family member and a friend. Now the burden is off my shoulder. Whatever they decide to do with the knowledge is now their responsibility. It is off my hands. My mind is clear and my heart is clean.