Just Words, No Action
People present themselves as models of decency and humility, but when their egos are bruised, they vent their jealousy and pride with a vengeance!
Today, paper is so readily available that you will find at least one bit of it lying wherever you look. However, these scraps of paper have no value. A currency note is also a bit of paper, but it has a definite value. Its value is so sure that no one can doubt it. The difference between a currency note and any ordinary piece of paper is that no one has undertaken a guarantee to honour it in the latter’s case, while the former carries a guarantee from the government’s bank. Every note has printed on it the promise that its bearer would be entitled to the total value printed on it. It guarantees that the bank will honour the note’s value which provides value to the bit of paper that is the currency note.
The same is valid for words. Today, we are surrounded by words all around us. However, much of what we speak has no value at all. These words are not accompanied by the guarantee of firm determination and sincerity. Someone promises to do some work for you, but when, at the appointed time, you ask him for help, he makes some excuse or the other and, in this way, does not honour the value of his words. He had given you a bit of ‘paper’ in the form of a verbal promise, but when the time came, he was unwilling to engage in the action that was the actual value of the words that formed his promise. His words were useless scraps of paper and not a genuine banknote.
People revel in the torrent of words that they let out, in the lofty promises that they make. However, they are simply unwilling to pay the reasonable price of their words to honour their value. Thus, their utterances become just bits of scrap paper, like the wastepaper that litters the streets, which people simply ignore.
Some people excel in passing resolution after resolution and issuing statement after statement to support the oppressed, but when a suffering person comes to their door asking for their help, they become as cold as an iceberg. How often are people’s words not matched by their intentions! How often do people say things that they do not mean! How many people present themselves as models of decency and humility, but when their egos are bruised, they vent their jealousy and pride with a vengeance!
