Pushing the Green Button...

Someday, not so far into the future, man will create android humans who will perform the menial tasks that humanity considered too low on the thought scale to perform. But somehow, Mollie felt, they’ll be able to program them to surrogate human compassion and empathy and sympathy. But what will actually be programmed into them will be mere words and phrases that children and adults wanted to hear throughout the centuries and these spoken in a soft voice devoid of anger and accusation. Words spoken kindly like, ‘there, there, tomorrow’s another day’ or ‘hey, I’m here, I’ll always be here for you’ or just ‘I know’. Perhaps they’ve already produced them, the patent established and the assembly line up and ready to roll. Mollie would be the first to press the green button. ~ Wounded Birds

Wayne Dyer once wrote that mental institutions are full because of lack of supportive relationships. People grow up in dysfunctional families with huge issues of self-esteem; hence the inability to form other healthy relationships due to poor choices. And yet, if these people had been told from the beginning they were 'okay', with a warm pat on the back, how full would be those places?

Hungry for crumbs of appreciation, many of us become pleasers and placators. Then, others' opinions are more valid, others' problems more pressing than ours. Still others resort to bullying or bragging behaviors, standing on others' necks to appear taller. But both types are the same: victims of the same emptiness, never really knowing how to fill the hollow place inside.

And yet, what difference would words of kindness make? Random words falling on ready ears and into open hearts. A compliment out of the blue as a balm for a wounded psyche. Really, so little effort for so big a difference. Do you think then that the pleaser would need to please and the braggart need to brag?

The great thing about spreading good words is that they have this funny habit of rebounding back to the sender like a boomerang. By slowly programing what comes out of our mouths, being aware of cause and effect, we certainly won't need a robot to do the job on our behalf.

Press the green button and see what happens.