In April of 2013, I replied to a particular blog post. Unfortunately, I can not remember the name of the blog. However, the post related to making mistakes and trying to learn from them. I was feeling a bit snarky that day. The night before, I had screwed up a knife that I’d been making for a friend. It was the third time I had messed up the handle. But for whatever the reason, I made the following comment on the blog:
“We’re a product of our environment and experiences. Mistakes are a hammer on the anvil of life. Good steel must be hammered repeatedly…”
I wasn’t really thinking when I wrote it. The words just sort of came out based on my reaction to the blog post I’d just read. I don’t remember whether or not I proofed it before I hit send. I just moved on to the next blog. A few minutes after I posted the comment, a blog/twitter friend asked if she could borrow it. Puzzled but not overly so, I said yes. The next thing I knew, she had tweeted my comment. It wasn’t until I read the tweet that I realized what I had said. I liked it and it fit my life at that moment. What can I say, even I can be profound once in a while. 🙂
How about you? Have you ever made an off-hand comment that you later realized was profound in some way?
Tales From The Hare 
sknicholls
August 28, 2014 at 9:12 am
I rarely come up with anything as profound without really stretching for it Ugh!
Dennis Langley
August 28, 2014 at 12:51 pm
I certainly surprised myself that day. 🙂
Matthew Wright
August 29, 2014 at 5:43 pm
It’s a great comment! I find, for myself, that my offhand remarks seldom mean what I intend – or are worth repeating later…
Dennis Langley
September 2, 2014 at 7:34 am
Agreed. But once in a while a gem is mined from the black hole that is my brain. 🙂
Jade Reyner
August 31, 2014 at 2:49 pm
Everything I say is profound Dennis 😉
Seriously though – what a great comment. You didn’t know you had such talent 🙂
Dennis Langley
September 2, 2014 at 7:35 am
Of course it is Jade. I’m sure your husband would agree. 😉
Pete Denton
September 1, 2014 at 9:48 am
I doubt that I have! Great words though. 🙂
Dennis Langley
September 2, 2014 at 7:38 am
Thanks, Pete. You probably have just didn’t know it. A man of your wisdom most assuredly. 🙂
Kate Johnston
September 2, 2014 at 7:55 pm
I’m not very profound. But, I like your stuff!
Dennis Langley
September 3, 2014 at 7:20 am
You forget. I’ve read you stuff too. You are very profound.
christawojo
September 16, 2014 at 5:08 pm
My characters are the ones who come up with all the good lines.
And I agree with your quote. Experiences are what shape us, especially the bad ones!
Dennis Langley
September 17, 2014 at 8:16 am
That’s true about characters. They are wiser than we sometimes give them credit for. Thanks for dropping by.