I know the deeds past. I know the way my tongue snares and strikes at the innocent. I know my folly and arrogance.
I think back and can't seem to remember what caused me to lose the ability to stay my tongue. My memories deceive me and my mind betrays me. I have a thin filter between my brain and my tongue, and evidently an extremely thin one.
I know my arrogance will consume me. Humility is something I lack and humiliation is something foreseen. There are the few who stand their ground and show me what its like to be at the other end of sharp edged words. And yet, too few to have me learn the importance of putting my tongue on a short rope.
Time and time again I look up the word humility in the dictionary, as my father told me to time and time again. Time and time again I forget the true meaning of the word and act it out with actions more than I do my mouth.
But we learn that mankind is ignorant and horrible at perception and only believe the said word. Mankind chooses to listen more than they see. They look and yet they dont see and that is where my problem begins. I've worked to overcome this before and yet I realize, every 3 months, to no avail it has come.
It is time I learn to stay my tongue, for I fear it will be the end of me.
But seen from a different angle, it makes me the man I am. Entertaining at its least. What joy do we have at conversation if it were a few people being silent, or worse yet, talking about something uncommon to each. Is it not the little mocking that we do each other that makes life that bit more interesting. It is at least something common, for what is more common to human beings than the mistakes we make. To talk about victories would only make us braggarts and seem all the more arrogant than we already do.
What is victory without its failures. For without failure, can we truly appreciate victory?
If people did not point out each others downfalls, how would we really know that we are at its core, imperfect beings?
Its a dirty, dirty job, but somebody's got to do it....