Remorse

A book falling on the foot from a great height would hurt lesser than a pin prick on the foot and the former would be ephemeral in comparison to the latter which would leave a mark. The smallest of things hurt the most. Sometimes we say or do things which are not at all important to us or we think we could joke around about it unaware that to someone it is like a pin prick.

I know its tough to understand why everyone is not like me, why does he not have the same sense of humor or why does he take things to his heart. But then it is vital to realize that he is not like me. He feels and touches things differently from me. He may like what I like, he may do what I do, but he has his own ways and his own happiness factor, for that matter an emotional factor.

He is my friend, I can say anything to him he’d not feel hurt, he knows im kidding. But is he able to take jokes to the same extent as me. Does he have the same emotional feelings I have about things. What If he does not like joking at all. All this is imperative but do we really ask ourselves this when we say something about someone. Are we sane enough to think before we speak. If not we say it and then we regret. We feel remorse for what we said, but spoken words cannot be taken back.
An old man once told me, anger is like an eraser. It erases our capabilities to think. We already don’t think before we speak and if the little sanity of cognizance we have is also erased then we would be bantering rather than speaking. One must think before he speaks, or better still one must not speak if he has nothing good to speak.

I too have been through lot many situations where I experienced remorse and realized it when it was too late. Too late to be forgiven. Its not tough to speak at all, even a 2 year old can speak. Speaking the right thing is what is tough. We should always take a moment to think before we speak.