Loud

 June 5, 2020

Loud

“Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts...”
― Robert Fulghum

 

 

 

Tone. Volume. Facial expression. Words.

 

It’s an amazing combination- 4 factors within one communication. Even if the communication is one word long.

Take the word “No.”

“No” can be spoken and countless numbers of intended responses can be expressed, from agreeable to cynical to angry to frightening to simple disagreement.

 

There’s a commercial on television with this very topic expressed- movie and television characters saying the word “no” with entirely different purposes.

 

Mr. Fulghum drives home that any word, communicated loudly, can make another person’s spirit sag. You’ve done it to someone, haven’t you? And, someone has done it to you.

 

Sometimes, you say something loudly and don’t mean it to injure the other, and yet just your volume can sound threatening, that person calling on past experiences of raised voices to mistakenly interpret you.

 

This whole idea of communicating to one another is what helps or hinders all relations.

 

Funny, isn’t it? Without ever touching another person they can be physically defeated.

 

So while examining our stockpile of sticks and stones for some long-off, probably never to happen conflict, let us manage our under-rated, overly powerful use of our voice.

 

When we raise our voices- may they fill the air with praises.

 

And may or curses be well-regulated in under-breath muttering (how about in some corner away from all others).

 

Yahoo!

 

Rev. Ken