You Have Something to Say
And it may be more original than you think - here's why
You have something to say.
It may be something that’s already been said, but all of us habitually forget the things we already know and need to be constantly reminded of them. Maybe what you say is exactly what someone needs to be reminded of, and you’ve said it at exactly the right moment.
Have you ever read something that was so well put and so relevant to the things you’d been thinking and worrying about that it made you cry? I have.
Even if what you say has already been said, you’re using slightly different words to say it. You’re filtering it through the experience of a life that no-one’s previously lived. And every time you rephrase something you fundamentally change the texture of it. Old becomes new.
Have you ever seen a stale truth you’ve heard a thousand times before expressed slightly differently — in more modern English, via a different metaphor, in a different context — and finally gone ‘Oh yeah! That’s so true!’ I have.
There’s a huge difference between knowing something in your head and getting it in your bones. Most of us “know” thousands of deep truths but only feel the truth of a few of them, and put even fewer of them into practice.
What you say — and the way you say it — could be the catalyst that turns someone’s ‘I mean, everyone knows that’ into an ‘Oh yeah! That’s so true!’
If what you say excites you at the moment you’re saying it, then it’s worth saying. You don’t know if it’ll excite anyone else. But you’ve given the thought or feeling its due, and the rest is out of your hands. You never know what it might do after you put it out there.
You have something to say.