A virtual friend, Camille Sanzone, emailed me today. I have taken the liberty of quoting her email in order to set the stage for my response. I am sure she won’t mind, however if you’d like to find out why I am sure of this please listen to her online radio show Tie a Knot and Hang On! Help has Arrived! It airs every Wednesday at 1p.m. Eastern Time.
Camille’s email:
“I just saw a poster on LinkedIn that says:
Actions always prove why words mean nothing.
Made me think of you, naturally, and your fondness for words.
How would you respond to that?
Camille”
My {slightly edited} response:
I would like to respond by saying the statement is unadulterated bull@#$%. Of course I wouldn’t use those words in a public forum…
Sadly, I see this type of idiotic pseudo wisdom touted often. I generally ignore it.
Action undertaken without thought is accurately described as thoughtless, however it could be equally accurately described as wordless. You see words are the means by which thoughts are conveyed. Thoughts precede words, and words precede any thoughtful deeds. Whether those deeds are malign or benign doesn’t matter one iota – words have preceded the actions we otherwise know as deeds.
If I was to tweet about it I might say:-
Words are the embodiment of thoughts, deeds are the embodiment of words, thus any deed undertaken without words is utterly mindless.
— C.G.Ayling (@CGAyling) May 18, 2015
Words are the embodiment of thoughts, deeds are the embodiment of words, thus any deed undertaken without words is utterly mindless.
Let me finish by pointing out something inescapable about these allegedly powerful deeds which prove words mean nothing… they can only be described with words.
Thus without words it is in fact deeds that ultimately mean nothing.
