Over the years comments have been heard that try to describe individuals whom someone has assessed as not being within the “bounds of acceptability”. Sayings like, “He is a few bricks short of a load” or “She was absent the day they handed out brains” or “His elevator doesn't travel to the top floor.” Mean spirited or not those who hear and say such things simply believe that the person with whom they refer doesn't quite meet the standards expected. Buy why not? Why doesn't their “elevator travel to the top floor?” Quite possibly because someone was responsible for leaking their fluid along the way.
Some lives are like elevators which operate on hydraulic fluids, and without the fluid, the elevator operates dysfunctionally or not at all. Perhaps it was a comment, a slam, or a put down when the person was a child. Maybe it was a derogatory term. Maybe the label assigned to them early stuck with them all through the years, and now the person even believes themselves to be that label. Certain spoken words hurt deep and although “sticks and stones” may be a convenient statement, words do leak the very fluid of the soul out of a person's life.
Maybe the next person who is deemed “just a little off” or “not quite altogether there” will cause the onlooker to wonder “who leaked the fluid from their lives?” and rather than comment about the status of which floor their elevator reaches, the assessment will be that this person may need a little fluid for the soul which the observers may readily supply.
Until tomorrow...Why Say More?
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