Lost in translation

Sometimes we say things which may hurt another indirectly and the hurt inflicted is unnecessary as it wasn't meant to be interpretated in that way in the first place. This is what i mean by lost in translation.

My gal friend said to me this many years later .. that she use to detest me when we were studying in secondary school... cause i was sacastic and had hurt her feelings. After i found out about it, i was quite sad.. cause a harmless remark (I don't even know what i said) had cause her to feel bad. I felt bad being someone to cause one pain.

What i want to say is that sometimes the ones were tend to hurt are the ones who love us the most as they put what we say to heart. If we are not important to them, they won't even bother about what we say. Its because we are important, its because we matter to them, that what we say penetrates to their heart.

So thats why i feel that we must be very careful of our speech to the ones we love, we must treat them with love, respect and tenderness. Coz what we say matters.

Felt sad that sometimes the things we say would make our love one feel bad and lousy and guilty. Rather than inflicting hurt, i want to be one who will bring joy and smiles to my love ones.

Power of speech.. use it probably and it will bring harmony and peace, use it wrongly, and it would cause much sadness and pain.