What are Rules – My Daughter Asked

In continuation to my previous post..

What are Rules? My daughter asked,

“What about when what we speak can’t hurt someone

because they don’t know?”

I had to think a moment for the answer.

In thought, word or deed, if you do a wrong, you hurt yourself.

Whether people know your thought, word or deed or not is irrelevant.

That you have hurt yourself implies you need to give it up.

So, what is relevant is what you do.

Not whether the world sees it

Or how the world sees it.