The telephone game...

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Remember the telephone game we used to play when we were young? You and your friends would sit in a circle and the first person whispered into the second person’s ear and told them something. The second person would then relay the message onto the third one, the third to the fourth, and so the game would continue until the message was given to the last person. By the time the message did reach them though, it could not be more far from the original message even if it tried. Then you all laugh about it and the first person tells everyone else what the original message was. It is all fun and games and soon everything is forgotten.

Today, the same game is still played. Only, this time it is on a bigger scale. It involves people and their lives. It involves people and their reputations. It involves people and their dignity. It involves people. People like you and me. Something happens, and before you know it, the story spreads like wildfire. When it comes back to you, your situation has worsened tenfold. And this time, there may be no laughs. This time it is not fun and games. This time things are not easily forgotten.
Today, I realized again how this telephone game always creeps up in our lives, and somehow we never learn. We fail to realize that by the time someone comes to us with some tale, so many things have been added to it and it is far from the original version. We believe these silly lies, we hold onto it and we hold it against people who may have nothing to do with it. We create enemies because of it. Friends become strangers as a result of it. And we just do not learn.
Today, I ask you all not to believe everything you hear. If something really bothers you, solve it with the person who is said to be the source of it all. But whatever you do, do not believe tales that have travelled through several people to get to you. The original message never gets to you. It is always lost in transit somewhere along the line.
That telephone game was fun when were young and it did not involve the lives of others. Now that we are grown, we see the damage that it can actually cause. So when that phone rings with a story waiting to be told; cancel that call, end the call, hang up, just do not participate.
Hang up.
The drama is not worth the damage it causes.

End that call. Cancel that call. Hang up. Do not participate in that telephone game.


Take Care

Miss Stone

Comments

  1. AnonymousApril 18, 2013 at 9:40 AM

    U CAN POST THIS BLOG AGAIN PLEASE - MISS GEM STONE

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  2. La-ToyaApril 18, 2013 at 10:11 AM

    Lol my dear Liesie, that would make my job so much easier, lol! Wish I could, people need to get the message.

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