Yesterday I posted something about how people who post deleterious things about others easily gain popularity.

But one FB friend responded in a way that led me to have the insight that, in my ‘example’ I was (perhaps inadvertently) enacting what I was ‘calling out’, and that the use of such language is, even as a mere example, an instance of the dangerous misuse of the incredible power of speaking/writing.

I had been slightly aware of this before my friend’s response, but after reading it I felt ashamed, as if I had actually done what I was posting critically about.

Yet sometimes, I must make a specific kind of mistake in order to experience the insights surrounding it, and thus, to reform my future actions.

Grateful to the one who responded with her heart, and awakened me to the possibility of a better way of utilizing the incredible gifts of language, and avoiding their dangers…