When Our Words Don’t Say What We Mean

We can reach out to one another.

Because there’s no way to know what’s coming next and Our words have failed us now that we’ve worried every single last living possibility to exhausted meaningless, What if we try not talking with words? What if we reach out, clasp hands, and stay quiet, Creating our future with warm, quiet presence?

On the way to a very important article that promised essential, transformational insight, I tripped over a WordPress blog by Jay Morris.

It was not a planned stop.

But it was a very good one.

In his 2017 piece, Morris discusses optimism as an approach to living in turbulent times and includes the Optimist’s Creed, written by Christian D. Larson in 1912 and adopted by Optimist International in 1922:

The Optimist’s Creed

Promise Yourself… To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. To talk health, happiness and prosperity to every person you meet. To make all your friends feel that there is something worthwhile in them. To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true. To think only of the best, to work only for the best and to expect only the best. To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. To wear a cheerful expression at all times and give a smile to every living creature you meet. To give so much time to improving yourself that you have no time to criticize others. To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear and too happy to permit the presence of trouble. To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world, not in loud word but in great deeds. To live in the faith that the whole world is on your side, so long as you are true to the best that is in you.

For today, for this one moment with hot coffee at hand and cool breeze aimed at face, I reach out to a friend with an email, another with a text, and still another with a handwritten note.

It’s not the physical clasping of hands that I would vastly prefer, but it’s what I can do today, here and now, in this moment.

All I have is all I need.

All you have is all you need.

Together, let’s build something amazing.