Every day we see snide remarks online--Facebook, Twitter, Instagram. We read mean comments in magazines and newspapers. We hear ugly comments on TV. Mean is everywhere...it doesn't take long at all to find it.
What do snide, flippant comments add to human kind? To this world? It's a serious question.
What do my mean comments add to the world?
Why do I feel that it's alright to tear somebody down? Sure, my witty, but biting tweet about, lets say, a singer I dislike will probably go unseen by its subject, but does that make it any less wrong?
What if they did see it?
My spur-of-the-moment comment could be the one thing that ruins their day. Or it could be what causes them to feel self-conscious.
There's a fine line between stating an opinion about likes/dislikes and using my dislike in a witty way at another person's expense.
The victim of my senseless words is someone's child, sibling, friend. Most importantly, they're somebody that God loves.
What does my comment say about me? Because most often, what I say about others reflects more of me than them.
So, again...what does my comment add to the world? Because I'd rather physically bite my tongue or cover my mouth to keep a little bit of mean out of the world. The world doesn't need any more of that...there's already far too much of it.
So why don't we all keep a little bit of ugly out of the world by holding back mean comments. And let's build up others by speaking beautiful words of them. Because, couldn't the world use a bit more beauty?
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