Foot in mouth syndrome…

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You know every day is a struggle to remember that even when I say something out of turn that it is who I am… I did this again the other day, I do not think I said anything that would harm, though I shared an inside joke, not realizing it might not be funny to someone else… I share, often too much, and other times not enough… I did not mean to share something I was not supposed to… I often remember to tell you I care but forget to say truths about what I see… Sometimes words come falling out of my mouth and it is only after the fact that I realize they might offend… I have rarely said something with intention of harm, and I can tell you thousands of times I have held my tongue, only to be assumed I don’t care, and thousands more that I have opened my mouth and inserted my foot… Often in my pause to gather words, it is my mind reminding me that I want the phrasing of the words, not to offend… Oh if you could hear the things that rattle through at first, you would not want me to speak again… It has taken a lifetime for the small amount of refrain I have now… Even in writing my blog, I often have to ask, do I share this, how do I phrase this, what if someone does not like what I write??? How do you remain authentic, and still not offend someone down the line??? The answer is simple, you don’t… You have to choose authentic, or the masses… I choose authentic and hope that in this choice that the masses come to see I would not offend, simply to be offensive… I say things that I do not see harm in and they harm… I do things without intention to offend and they offend… This is part of the human experience… So if at any time I have said something I shouldn’t, offended you when I could have refrained, or harmed without intention… You have my deepest apology for missing the awareness of these actions… I promise that in continuing my experience here it will happen again… That is part of the deal, we make mistakes, we correct them and we move on… How does I get better than this???