If You Live By The Sword
Sometimes things don’t go well and everything seems to go wrong at the same time. And then we wonder why. Perhaps then it is the time to re-evaluate yourself to see how much you had contributed to your own dismay.
Life is such. Whatever you sow you will harvest in ten fold. If you sow winds you shall harvest storms. And you cannot expect to harvest wine if you had planted grapes. It does not work that way. Harvesting the grapes only puts you halfway there if you wanted wine in the first place.
There will always be those who like you and those who don’t. And some of those who don’t like you will even pretend to like you. Just to get closer to you to harm you better. Those are the ones you need to be careful of; they will be quick to latch onto anything you say – even in a joke – to use it out of context. And they are the ones to complicate matters by initiating others to stir trouble and keeping their own hands clean. And then to make sure that things stay that way by asking all the wrong ‘innocent’ questions. And they are the ones who will stab you in the back when you least expect it.
So put a guard to your mouth. What goes into your mouth can only harm you in the short term - if it does not kill you. But what comes out your mouth can do much more damage in the long term. Choose your words wisely.
But life is a funny equalizer. If you live by the sword, you shall die by the sword.
May you all have a great week.
Comments (48)
I'm like that. I'm prepared to trust anybody once. If that trust is broken, it will never be the same again. Even if we become friends again, I will never trust that person again.
Sometimes when the economy is less than great...people get rather negative and cause problems or are less than enthusiastic with other people's success...maybe part of the human condition...so I have noticed...
Spot on. Envy is the biggest motive for wanting to destroy another.
This is what people, groups, nations and every body else fight over; They want something that the other have. Be that a woman, prestige, fame, land or resources under the ground. Whatever they cannot attain in the proper way they will try to usurp and failing that they will rather destroy it than to see the other one have it.
that is just the problem; you never know who those backstabbers are until it is too late.
That is where we differ. I don't waste time on revenge. I cut my losses and get on with it. Revenge take up more resources and does not fix anything. I leave that for life to equalize. As I said in my blog. If you live by the sword, you shall die by the sword.
Sorry, I picked this one up a bit late. You sound just like Bajanshay now. I wonder if the two of you were born under the same star sign.