words

Perception is language. We can  not be a moment without being in language: we live in words much as we live in air. Even a single word is not reality. Dog. Your dog and my dog are very different. Both are real to each of us but the meaning of the sender of a personal picture of dog is different. Even it were that dog that both are looking at there is different emotion attached to each view.
It come to my mind that we rarely communicate but accept some strange form of shorthand with little clarity. If the recipient is fond of the sender...then there is compassion and the benefit from any doubt that there was ill intent to the words. But if the sender is suspect or there is an experience that the words are to be an attack or "bomb" then even neutral words or opinions will be viewed as negative.  So the moral. ... WORDS ARE LIKE TOOTHPASTE. .ONCE OUT OF THE TUBE YOU CAN NOT GET THEM BACK.  mindful speech but know the heart of the listener.