Criticizing or condemning others is a negative practice that may unfold either intentionally or sometimes it happens without our conscious. This is because we lack the will to accept life as it is. It may even be because of our inability to digest the progress of people whom we consider are on par with us in our life. Instead of taking it as a challenge and encountering the situation with a healthy competition we start to bad mouth the success of the person.
It is a strange behaviour of humans to resist the reality and try to defy it with whatever might he possesses. He is in the intention that it is easier for him to hate the success of his counterpart than to appreciate it. This hate triggers frustration that swells to criticism and bad mouthing on the personal level of that person.
Mankind has imagined that discharging out negativity is the only way to vent anger and frustration. This anger makes him feel really lively so he can go on and on for hours without a break, but ultimately he fails to understand that it does no good to him at all. Since negativity breeds the same kind, it will never improve the situation or help in soothing his anger or frustration.
It so happened that an old man had a young successful business man as his neighbour. The old man could not stand the prosperity of the young man hence he spread rumors that his neighbour was in counterfeit business. And soon the news spread and fell on the ears of police and the young man was arrested. After a long legal battle the young man was proven innocent. Now the young man sued the old man for wrongly accusing him and damaging his image.
In court sent summons to the old man. The old man appeared in the court and told the Judge, “Your honour, they were just comments which could not have done any harm to anyone”
The judge, before giving the sentence told to the old man, “Take a piece of paper and write what you feel about your neighbour and tear the paper into pieces and throw them as you go home from here. Come back tomorrow for the sentence.”
Saying so, the judge adjourned the court.
The next day, the judge told the old man, “Now I would want you to gather all the pieces of paper that you threw out yesterday, and after that I will pronounce the judgment.”
The old man said, “Your honour how is it possible for me to get those pieces of paper I threw yesterday. Wind would have spread them and I won't not know where to find them.”
The judge then replied, “Exactly, as you are unable to collect the pieces of paper you tore and threw a simple negative comment on any one may destroy the honor of the person to such an extent that it is unable to retrieve those said words and fix the damage caused. Hence if you can't appreciate the goodness of a person it would be better not to talk ill of that person. If beating hurts body, bad mouthing hurt the heart."
The old man could understand his grave mistake.
“Let's us all be the Lords of our Mouths, so that we need not be Slaves of our Words.”
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