Word Vomit

Word vomit. We've all been there. 

I mean it happens to everyone. Whether we're caught up in the moment, or we say things out of anger, or because we're nervous and we don't know what to say - it happens and it's never pretty. 

Picture this: there's two people in an argument and one person get's so angry that they blurt something out that they shouldn't. The anatomic particles that are flying through the sound barrier that make up that attack are on a split second travel through the air on their way to break the sound barrier that, subsequently, silences the whole bubble that is the argument. 

When you word vomit, it's like you want time to come to a dead halt. Picture whatever you said coming out of your mouth and let's slow down time. So those anatomic particles are flying through the air and at the same time you knew you shouldn't have said what you did while you were saying it. It's like you want to extend your arms out and shove every last anatomic particle that came out of your mouth and shove it back down your throat and pretend you never said it. You want to wasp it away from the distance between you and that other person and hope that you swiped it away fast enough so that the other person never heard it and it doesn't hang in the air like heavy fog. 

Why do we "word vomit"? Do we blurt things out because we feel like it's the punchline to end all arguments? Do we feel stronger and feel like winners because we just delivered the knock out punch to silence the other person? Simply because we knew it was going to do such? 

Why do we do it when we're nervous? Why do we word vomit when someone's pressuring someone else? Don't you think we ought to take our time and think for ourselves instead of someone getting in our face? If someone demanded an answer from me and I blurted the truth out, wouldn't it still be the truth if I took a second to think about how I was going to say something? I mean, why do people automatically think we're trying to think up a lie to tell the person if we're taking our time? Well of course I'm nervous and bound to word vomit when someone's demanding answers with their face two feet from mine - and people also flinch when someone claps in their face because it's a natural reaction - not because they're afraid. 

I don't think word vomit is something that should be taken so seriously sometimes. It's word vomit for a reason. It's those words and phrases you say without thinking or that you even mean - yet people think so highly of it because "it's the first thing you said, so of course you meant it because you didn't have time to think up a lie". Think about it, mom's word vomit all the time because that deviant little child of theirs won't stop asking their incessant questioning asking and suddenly, when the child asks something again, the mom snaps. Word vomit. 


We all word vomit for a ton of different reasons, but think about it: did you ever truly mean what you vomited? 

Till the next thought