Don't say it, you'll regret it later...

I was watching this show awhile ago about celebrities who experienced a career melt-down. Among those featured, I was only able to catch the top nine out of maybe top 10 or top 20. As I expected, this very popular young pop singer bagged the number one slot. Well, she is way ahead of the number two in this race. What really surprised me a lot was the actor who got the third place. He happens to be one of my favorite actors (and directors) in Hollywood. Because of that my admiration for this actor was lessened a bit but he remained as one of my favorites nevertheless. There was also this very promising comedian who, I don't know why, blurted something on national TV about a certain race that made a group of artists of this certain race stood up against this comedian. Poor him, his public apologies were not even enough to redeem his career that went a permanent melt-down. Most of the reasons of these melt-downs were their language and words they let out in a (maybe) very unguarded moment.

Too late! Words had been uttered. Captured on camera and through other media. Its posted on the net and being replayed over and over again making the damages almost impossible to reverse. This is where the concept of "taming the tongue" goes into my mind again. I've been hearing this concept like more than ten years back but I haven't really fully practiced this yet. Or I should say "I haven't really tamed my tongue" as yet. They said that we must think and listen to the words within ourselves before we even blurt it out. That we must control our tongues because our words might be so harmful to someone. Yes, that is very easy said than done. When you are in a certain overwhelming emotion, there would be no other perfect time more pleasurable than now. Even before you can remember the teaching about "taming of the tongue" you already let out few words that caused damages that you wished you shouldn't have done. Too late! Whatever you have said are now flying and the chances of catching them back are swiftly flying along with the so called impossible.