Life Would Be Easier If I Always Said the "Right Thing", But Then I Wouldn't Have This Blog Post, Would I?

The dangerous thing about speaking is that occasionally your mouth gets ahead of your thoughts.  And as you watch, frozen with realization, your naked words show themselves to the world, oblivious to their bare behinds.  Now that you have spoken aloud, there is no going back.  You cannot herd them back inside your mouth, nor can you deny their existence.  You said it, and everyone around you heard it; that sentence, however ugly, deformed, or false, is parading au natural before the whole world.  

Your only hope is to add to it.  However, as is often the case in embarrassing moments, your addition only makes everything worse.  Sentences and phrases, jumbled together in the mess, stumble over your teeth as they shield their eyes from the offense words.  Desperately, they attempt to nullify their brothers, throwing blankets of air into the bedlam.  But naked words have no shame; they hurry to all corners of the room, expertly avoiding your attempts to catch them.  It doesn't take long for you to realize that the explanation erupting from your bloodless lips does nothing but overflow the air in an suddenly crowded room.  

So in resignation you keep the rest of your pointless excuses inside, filling up your cheeks like so much water.  But even silence does not calm your thoughtless sentence, which still scurries around, knocking into your audience and laughing at your distress.  Eventually someone, pitying your awkward predicament, ventures to change the subject.  An invisible sigh cools the room, and the group, relieved, take hold of the welcome topic.  Finally calm, your unclad sentence congregates in the closets of the mind, forgotten until spring cleaning.

I feel like my words constantly deceive me, slipping past my tongue before I even realize that they're there.  But at the same time, maybe that's what makes life so satisfying.  I suppose it's sorta like the name of my blog.  If we always said the "right thing", careful not to offend anyone, never making anyone uncomfortable, we might never say those true words, the ones that really mean something.  Maybe if we never had those awkward situations, ripe with embarrassment and political incorrectness, we would never have those meaningful situations where surprising words are spoken and you are challenged and inspired.

And perhaps, if we're lucky, something good might come of those painfully bare words we try so hard to hold in.