"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense."are good advice. But we need to be careful what we say. The person you are talking about may be down the hall in your bosses office.
Today, Nancy Dent & I were talking about death & I was telling her about Angelica's funeral. I told her what a spiritual feast it was & then I preceded to tell her what Brad Wall, a ward member and neighbor, had said. It was nothing bad. Brad & I had talked at church about how spiritual the funeral was & what a good job the family had done.
I looked in Kelly's office & even though I had my computer glasses on, which makes looking in the distance very blurry, the man sitting on his couch looked like Brad. It WAS!! He waved at me. I went in, sat down by him & said I had been talking about him. I told him we were talking about Angelica's funeral.
Even though it was nothing bad, I was embarrassed. I would have said the same thing in front of him, but I felt like I'd been caught gossiping. He told me about a time when he was going to say something about a man. The man he was talking to stopped him & told him the other man was his cousin.
I went in later & said to Kelly how embarrassed I was. He said Brad had said to him while we were in the hall. "They're talking about me."
Words, like feathers, fly in the wind. Careless words, tossed about, cannot again be swallowed up
~ Traditional Eastern European Folktale
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