Impeccable Words

Please allow me to use myself as an example of this theme: In a recent conversation with the love of my life, I mentioned I was going to transfer money from our checking account to our savings account. (In my mind, the place where you put your ‘savings’ is a savings account.) My loved one raised his voice more than a notch and said, “We don’t have a savings account, we have a Money Market account.” “Well, grumpf,” I replied quite taken aback at the heat with which he delivered his words. Perfect, I am not, so I quite abruptly ended the conversation with a mumbled insinuation of how like another my loved one was acting! The other, of course, one with whom easy conversation is a goal yet to be achieved! A dear and wise friend later pointed out that a savings account and a money market account really are two different things and that I was not being impeccable with my words. As you can imagine, that was quite the eye-opener for me! I was not being impeccable – was I! I felt slightly abashed for having so instantly judged my honey-bun as the bad guy!

The moral of this story is that being impeccable of word not only involves caring consideration for the one you are delivering your words too, but choosing words that correctly fit the mold. Trying to put a square peg in a round hole, just will not work. I learned a very important lesson that day. Just because I deemed where we put our dollars as a savings account, did not make it so. To be impeccable of word one must also speak concisely as to the subject. When able to accomplish this precision, there is not much left for interpretation is there! With such clarity, misconception, and misunderstanding and as result anger, cannot filter into a conversation. Would that the world might practice this way of communicating, there might actually be an opening to work out the differences that have driven mankind to war for so long.