Good Words and Bad Words Are a Matter of a Single Thought (Part 1)

A husband was being intimate with his wife, caressing her and complimenting her playfully, "Your skin feels so smooth, definitely not like a forty-year-old woman." The wife smiled and replied, "Yeah! Everyone who's touched me recently has said so." 'Slap!' A smack to the face. The husband roared, "How many people have touched you recently? Tell me honestly!" The wife covered her face, crying, "Everyone says that! All the ladies at the skincare clinic say that." This is a true story, but doesn't it sound like a joke? The problem is, when you observe carefully, you'll find that our surroundings are full of such jokes. Just because one sentence wasn't said correctly, a comedy turns into a tragedy, and a good thing that was about to be accomplished turns into a bad thing. Everyone can speak, but not everyone knows how to talk; there's plenty to say, but not everyone says good things. The reason for not saying good things is simple – because they didn't think it through. Let me give you an example: A friend of mine recently built a tool shed in the backyard of his new house. The tool shed was made from ready-made materials and assembled by himself, specifically for storing gardening tools like lawnmowers, shovels, and hoes. However, as my friend was excitedly halfway through assembling it, his neighbor shouted over the fence, "You're building a house haphazardly, it's illegal." My friend was furious and went to the building department to inquire. The answer he got was that building a tool shed within ten feet by ten feet is not illegal; only exceeding that is. He went back, measured his purchased tool shed, which was ten feet by twelve feet – two feet too long. So he returned it and exchanged it for a legal size.