#AtoZChallenge U: Unsaid
Unsaid
Ahhh. My claim to fame. Sometimes my mouth gets me into trouble. There’s this whole censor thing missing in my brain sometimes. I’m getting better, but I still have to work at it everyday.
Sometimes it’s just a little something funny. Sometimes it’s a little crass and crude. Sometimes I hurt people’s feelings unintentionally. That girl in the picture up there. She’s definitely me more times than I’d care to admit.
Now, some people enjoy my blunt-speak and actually prefer it, but man…there are so many out there that do NOT.
Have you ever needed to take a pair of scissors to your tongue like me?
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Very true, Alice. As a fellow deal-with-the-public-so-I-Have-to-censor-myself type I’m anxious to get away from that with my friends. And believe me…because we are friends, you’ve seen the not so sweet side of me. LOL
And have rapped my knuckles for careless comments as well.
But as an author I can’t really let everything fly out of my mouth. I’m friendly with so many that I sometimes forget that. Now, you can argue that it shouldn’t matter what others think. And that’s true to a point. But things I say reflect on others as well. It’s not just me I have to worry about anymore.
Will it stop me? Probably not all the way. Will it make me think twice sometimes? Yep.
My friends however…yeah. They get me in technicolor. Those poor, poor people.
Well, if and when dealing with the public comes up, I don’t anticipate an issue. I can censor myself when I need to. There are just people who aren’t supposed to need filters. My friends accept me for who I am and appreciate that I’m already taking an effort in being social in the first place.
Being taken for granted is one of the worst feelings someone can give me, so you can imagine I’ll drop people like a hot potato if they don’t acknowledge the effort I do put in.
And in return, I acknowledge and appreciate what my friends have to give, and I like them for exactly the people they are, instead of who I think they can be.
My protagonist has this problem when she asks personal questions without thinking about the emotions the questions might raise.
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LOL Those are fun to read though. VERY fun to read.
That picture scares me. I can totally relate. Sensitive people sometimes think my jokes are sarcastic or mean-spirited. But I can’t help myself. If a funny thought comes to me, it’s coming out like projectile vomit. Visiting from A to Z.
LOL!! Yeah…it was a bit creepy. I typed in unsaid in the search box on Pinterest and got that!
*snicker* Yep. projectile vomit indeed.
I figure, if anyone can’t stand me at my uncensored worst, we probably shouldn’t be friends. I have to censor myself ALL THE TIME at work, and writing gives me the luxury of hitting backspace if I want to take something back. At the end of the day, the last thing I want is to keep filtering everything that comes out to figure out the most politic thing to say. If I’ve offended someone, I expect them to speak up to ask for clarification, or to say, “Hey, jerkface, knock it off.”
I’d much rather know up front if someone merely tolerates my verbal stream-of-consciousness, or if they appreciate my weird take on the world. If they don’t appreciate it, I don’t have to keep subjecting them to it. There are plenty of other people I can talk to, or I can get a break from the kind of people who exhaust me.
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