HOW DO YOU TALK?

‘He who talks incessantly talks nonsense’

The act of talking is one of the beautiful gifts of nature. Talk is cheap; you are free to say anything you feel like saying whenever you want to say it, wherever and however you want it. Your words can either make you or destroy you. Your words represent you; your words introduce your identity to the world. What you say about yourself and other people determines your personality and totality in life.

Nature has a limit for everything we choose to do in life. When you go beyond the natural limit, whatever you do becomes abnormal. When you drink alcohol beyond the natural limit, you become a drunk, when you take a drug in excess, it becomes an overdose, when you think too much, it may lead to madness, when you eat too much, people would call you a glutton and it may lead to obesity. Also, when you talk incessantly, your words will become verbose and meaningless.

At times, the messages that we pass in silence are louder than the ones that people hear from us when we speak out. We need to watch the way we speak and monitor what we speak to people. Most people that are talkative in nature are not usually good with keeping secrets. They talk about everything they know, some of them even go as far as saying things that they don’t know because they want to beautify their speech.

Our ancestors believe that people who talk about everything, whatever, wherever, whenever and however, do not usually make a noticeable progress in life. Many of them are not honest with what they say; hence they are deprived of the trust, dignity and honor that should be accorded to them by people. Being talkative may attract many friends to you but it can never sustain the friendship. It takes more than talks to build friendship.

If you choose to live by talking, then you need to place value on what comes out of your mouth. Most people who talk nonsense do not actually know that people don’t understand what they say, they just keep on talking. We learn a lot when we listen to our mind than when we speak our mind. At times, it is better and wiser to listen and learn from people instead of being the only one that talks about almost everything all the time.

Please, think twice before you talk today. May your words never put you into trouble.

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