Sizzle Says

“An ounce of performance is worth a pound of promises.” -Mae West

I have a real trigger when it comes to people saying one thing and doing another. I’m guessing it has a lot to do with my Dad and his broken promises but that’s just me and my pop psychology. When you grow up hearing one thing but seeing another thing you begin to wonder if it is YOU who is misinterpreting. But you know in your gut that something isn’t lining up like it should.

A person can say s/he loves you with words but does s/he say they love you with their actions? Forget the excuses. Forget the ACOA multiple chances to hurt you. Forget it all and just look at the actions. If you were deaf could you feel what this person says in their words if all you had was actions to go on?

Maybe we’re all guilty of it in one way or another. We want to believe that people mean what they say. . . And that sometimes it just takes longer for some to actually do what they say. Maybe they DO mean it but . . . where do words get us? When a person’s behavior doesn’t match their words, then what? What do you trust?

“Time to tell me the truth/To burden your mouth for what you say/No pieces of paper in the way/Cause I can’t continue pretending to choose/The opposite sides on which we fall/The loving you laters if at all/No right minds could wrong be this many times/My memory is cruel/I’m the queen of attention to details/Defending intentions if he fails/Until now, he told me her name/It sounded familiar in a way/I could have sworn I’d heard him say it a thousand times/If only I’d been listening/Leave unsaid unspoken/Eyes wide shut unopened/You and me/Always between the lines. . .” – Between the Lines, Sara Bareilles