Post-Venge Post: The Day(s) after...Fool Some, Fulsome!

"So where do we go from here?" A reasonable enough question, which deserves at least a halfway intelligent, sincere answer. Just where does one go after they have either successfully carried out a plan to avenge, get revenge, or instead, put the plan on "pause" and do as I suggested in yesterday's post: reflect on how you, yourself, have either through acts of commission or omission, even unintentionally brought harm to another...a reflection of our own shortcomings and flaws, an honest look in the mirror, as well as inwards...taking a Moral Inventory ("Step 4" in "12 Step" programs)...perhaps progressing to "Making Amends", an attempt to more successfully mend fences, reconcile after a time of reflection, prior to just jumping in with both feet, with zeal, well-intended apologies, or even compliments which can go awry...We've all been on both sides of these...

"And then some..." As in "I've had it up to here...You're so full of it...Fill 'er up...My cup overfloweth...Hot/cold beverage cups that prevent spillage..." Can go, be taken either way, as in a sincere compliment, or profuse apology...or, instead, one that is attempting to ingratiate another, gain favor, from one who is posing as an apologist but instead is simply trying to get tacit permission to repeat the same behavior over and over...celebrating abundance on the one hand (such as what many were doing just a few months ago, when checks started arriving in the mail box or direct deposit, with something like "U.S. Pandemic..."). After which many politicians made "gushy, rapturous, unctuous..." remarks, dripping with saccharine...to each other, regarding what they just accomplished on behalf of all of U.S. around here...the kinds of comments we have come to associate with "sycophants", from those who are ostensibly looking out, being supportive of another but we, after looking further into it, find they are, in fact, being rather pretentious ("I just love that new dress/hairstyle...") or even "obsequious". So many connotations, that have come to be associated with the word, one which gradually leaked into the western world vocabulary, and troubled Webster and Company, as whether it was it was either good or bad...too hot too cold...

"Use your words..." What we all heard early and often, at home and at school, an attempt in part to mitigate a potential conflict between siblings or peers...how to effectively deliver a compliment or apology, on behalf of another, mutual best interest; an ample supply at that. Can go either way..."Fool some...Fulsome!" As in "Fool me once, shame on you..." JK😁

 


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