when I was watching an interview of Arun Jaitley. He was talking? being quizzed? interviewed? by Dutt of NDTV.
I realized that he was hedging giving direct answers. He was either hiding behind a deluge of words, or he was deflecting his answers into the regions of 'we'll see tomorrow' and 'I'm not saying anything definitive' and other replies along the same lines, which were neither here nor there. In short, he was not willing to commit to anything - neither to what his party was doing, nor, worse, to what he thought, or believed to be a fact - There were just large numbers of words all floating around in the ether....and none of them were coming together to form cohesive replies...
By extension, I realized how often an adrenaline rush causes us to blather....or how sometimes, our adrenaline-charged moments cause us to say all kinds of things we don't mean...
How much better to keep quiet. Or, if one does want to express oneself, then it is infinitely more satisfying to ourselves, to say what we think or believe or mean. It's okay if it's wrong and we have to eat our words (they are OUR words), or change our thinking ( they are OUR thoughts), or do a mid-course correction in what we plan to do (they are OUR actions). It is all right to retract and try again. It is perfectly okay to go back 10 steps and then move forward one. It's also okay to go back many times, till we get the right note....It's much better to acknowledge we are wrong, change our thinking and go forward, rather than drown in our own sea of meaningless words...We ARE human - and as humans we have thoughts, beliefs, views, opinions.....they may be wrong, they may be right....but they are OURS....they show who we are....they express what we think, believe, feel....they connect us to other humans....they help us create the contours of our mind and thinking and feeling...they make us different from other humans.....they make us US - special, unique...