Friday!!!! Yeah!!!! :)

It's Friday!  It's Friday!! Yeah!!  Hey everyone! Hope you are all well on this beautiful Friday afternoon! So, my co-workers have given me much to write about in the last week.  For instance, one of my co-workers was (jokingly) hurling insults at another co-worker yesterday and he said, "fat and ugly".  Fat AND ugly??? Hmmm.  What exactly do you think he meant by that?  That being ugly is a condition of being fat?  Or maybe that being fat is a condition of being ugly.  Either way it was obviously intended as an insult.  I mean, you never hear someone insulting another person by saying, "you are skinny and beautiful"!  Pretty good bet it was an insult.  Good thing as Americans, we have freedom of speech so we can use it to jab, poke and verbally harass others.  Do you really think that's what our founding fathers intended us to use that freedom for?  Probably not.  Wow!  Sounds like I have found my soapbox today!!!  I guess I could use my freedom to interpret and change my perception of that statement.  Maybe I should look at it in the light of "if you're fat, you must not be ugly"  otherwise why would they say both?  Maybe being fat makes you mutually exclusive from being ugly.  Well, I have heard people say, "you've got such a pretty face".  I am unsure how to perceive this comment as well.  In the past I have perceived it to mean, "your face is pretty, but the rest of your body is gross".  I think from now on I will choose to think it is positive. 

Words are so powerful and yet we sling them around without the slightest thought of how they may affect someone else.  I am as guilty as anyone and I am ashamed.  Words once spoken can NEVER be taken back.  You can apologize and really mean it, but you can never put those words back in your mouth and make them be not heard.  They are out there and believe me once they are spoken and heard they are never forgotten.  So let's make an effort to be more careful about the words we use and our intention in using them.  You never know who might be hearing them.  Thanks for weighting!