WORDS

There's a lotta' noise these days about words. 

'He broke his word'! 

'She can't keep hers'!! 

It's all just words.

Sounds we make with our mouth...nothing more.

Chimps can do it.  We don't set our watch by them. 

Same goes for humans.

Words are just a rough guide.  A VERY rough guide.

Like the first draft of a script against the movie. 

Not even the first draft; the script NOTES.

My experience? 

Most of us get nervous if we go too long without flapping our gums. 

As long as we are jawin'...we don't have to worry about the quiet. 

'Cos if it's too quiet...we might see who we really are, what we really mean. 

And that might get us into hot water.

So we fill the air with words.

Most of the time...most people say things they don't really mean.

At least in my years on the planet. 

Now ACTIONS are a different kettle of fish. 

They 'aint even the same kettle.

'Aint even fish. 

ACTION is a whole new species.  A RARE species, at that. 

So...forget the words; they are just a rough draft...a working guide to who we MIGHT want to be in the future. 

Dismiss the words...and you will never be disappointed.

Even these ones.

Carve them onto a stone tablet...& people will mess them up forever.

Let words go.

You want to be really upset...save it for the actions. 

Most of THEM don't hold up either.

But they DO define us.  Good & bad.  (whatever that means) 

If you find someone whose actions you can rely upon, hold onto that person.

And if their actions reflect their words...

Damn. You better hog tie 'em down and put 'em in a glass cabinet.

Get a photo. 

Call the papers. 

These people are WORTH making a noise about...

Worth words.

"Men this, men that..."

So much talk about men. 

"Men this, men that...

Men do this, but don't do that...

Well enough, hard enough, caring enough or consistent enough..

Touch this!  Push that!  Rub me there...NO NO, the wrong way, you clumsy boorish oaf!

Too much too soon, too short too fat...Too distant..."

Too much talk, perhaps?? 

Not enough COMMUNICATION??

Aside from from doing our egos the world of good being the centre of attention (remember what the famous macho hero poet and sheet metal worker Oscar Wilde was overheard to have said about there being 'only one thing worse than being talked about, & that is NOT being talked about'...), I wonder at all this chatter and noise about who we are and what we should be doing...

Perhaps we are actually SIMPLER than all that hullabaloo would suggest. 

Are we really not a little light in the load to have developed such an all-encompassing gender specific socio-cultural idiom???

Now women, on the other hand...!