wowie | open mouth. insert foot.

This is an open apology to anyone anywhere I may have ever offended.

Some thoughts I've read (not actually spoken myself) today lead me to write this. Words are so powerful. You can never take them back. Impressions are made that can't be changed. People remember - even if they say they forgive. It still hurts.

Unlike some people (not naming names and really really really don't want other names mentioned in here) that never seem to admit they may possibly be wrong, I'd like to say here and now I have said some stupid things at times without thinking. (You'd think because it takes longer to type than to speak, people would be more careful when they type? Hardly!) I am very sorry if I've hurt anyone's feelings with my rash words. In one case I don't even realize what it is I've said, but I know there is obviously something because of something I found out from someone else the other day (sorry to be vague).

Words are powerful. I for one can tell ya that their hurts do not go away easily. And in most cases they don't go 'way at all. I can vouch for that, having had two educators for parents that spared the rod (hallelujah) that disciplined with what I came to recognize as 'psychological warfare' when I became a teen.

Sticks and stones may break my bones
But words will never harm me

That's a damn lie.

And in the words of the late Eleanor Roosevelt...

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

*tries to put that quote indelibly in the head*

So again, I'm sorry if I've said anything anywhere that made someone hurt.

Carry on...