Words words words...

Ever felt that words are so limiting?
ever wished that people could put away with words ,
and go straight in to the mental message we all have before those foul things leave our lips?
Ever wondered why the same things said to 2 different people sometimes get interpreted in different ways?

Its funny how things we hear can be heard so differently at different moments in time...
Now please don't say that never happens... for i am sure it has happened to each one of us..
I believe we all have a pair of filters in which we see the world thru, Some wear dark glasses, some wear coloured glasses, some have thick lenses, some thin... Some glasses allow us to see wide and far... and some only a small distance away...
And i would think, just like our eyes, our ears, thoughts, taste, nose have a filter in some way or the other... After all, are we not moulded by our beliefs, upbringing and experiances?

Of course there is no right or wrong... but it makes me wonder...
If I a person whom wears glasses that only allows me to see small distances, were to one day change glasses to one that sees wide and far... How would things change?
I would expect all that which i strongly thought was right would suddenly be seen as wrong.
But then again, how can i label it as wrong?
For that was all i saw and all i knew.... until i changed glasses, and then i saw more.
and all those who were screaming and shouting that the world was flat would still think so...
that is until their preception changed of course...

When i was young, i would take great offence if someone said i was righteous,
I remember the time, during an activity that was one of the more common feedbacks i got...
And i remember the shock of having people perceive me in that way...
( note i used the word perceive: well i learned later that feedback is not a statement of what you are, but just how people sometimes see you )
Righteous was one of the last things i would call myself.
But now.... if you were to sayI was righteous... i would totally agree..
With time.. the filters in which i perceived myself has changed too...

I guess, the flower does not know that it's scent is fragrant,
and the garbage does not know that it smells foul...
So whos the one that says fragrant or foul?

I guess at the end of the day.. it really comes down to being able to go beyond what we think and making the choice to choose a better pair of filters... one that allows us to see far perhaps.
There is no need to say who was wrong or right... for it fixs nothing..
Most importantly, is the awareness that no matter how open or knowledgeable we think we are..
There will always filters.... and the filters change with time, for better or worst..

Question is... what are we going to do with it? Shall we look at others differently and acknowledge that they too have thier own filters? Would that enable us to be more forgiving with one another? And the list goes on.......