Too Much Talk

Stop talking so much to people who neither care nor matter. Too often we rush to work or break rooms to tell people our personal business. Be quiet. We stay on our cell phones telling of our deepest hurts and darkest fears. We talk and talk and talk. And when done, we are none the better.

Most folks can’t wait to get your juicy fruit of complaint to carry to others. Stop telling others about your personal business. Leave them guessing. Remain an enigma. Shut the motorboat of your tongue off. Quit supplying just any and everybody with the precious pearls of your life, only to have them trampled under pigs’ feet.

Something is wrong if you can sit around for an hour or two of conversation with casual acquaintances and never discuss anything that’s deep or enriching. What books are you discussing? What service is being offered to better your society, even your very own community? Are either of you reading anything at all? What type of reading are you doing? What value is being added by the daily conversation?

There is a difference between having something to say and just wanting to say something. So, keep your words few. Talking, especially with the wrong people, can leave you without energy and power. Through talking you exchange your energy for their weakness. Through talking you give others your life and they in turn give you their death. Through telling people your business day in and day out, you give them the knife that will be used to stab you in the back.

Be very wise today. Try not to spew and spill every event, experience and thought into the hearing of the unqualified. Just because a person has ears does not mean they deserve your words. Don’t give in to the adult peer pressure of popularizing your personal problems, pressures and plans just to fit in with people who can only make withdrawals from your life and never a deposit of real substance and value.