- Trust actions majorly more than words. Words are intrinsically worthless, deceitful little bastards with few redeeming qualities. That’s why things like promises, apologies, (excessive) praise, phony “I love you”s, verbal commitments, tired old clichés, and their other lowbrow cousins are vastly overrated. And saying “overrated” here is being far too gentle: Those aforementioned verbal vehicles are hollow…..unredeemable……useless…..nothing, actually. Words require no sweat equity nor do they demand any form of sentimental down payment, thus their net value is zero. Yes, zero, as in the manifestation of nothingness! Show me, don’t tell me. And if you can’t or are for some unexplained reason scared to show me, then all the words in the world—when distilled down to their primeval essence—are equal to, but definitely do not exceed, their basic chemical composition: Legions of ill-used, physically transformed oxygen molecules unceremoniously dumped into the duped atmosphere in front of your face—an ethereal substrate which irrefutably was designed for much larger and nobler purposes than meekly accepting embarrassing blather from excuse-makers.
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