The Way We Think: Common Idioms We Use

We have powerful thoughts. Sometimes, when we get mad, we start thinking about phrases that we have heard before and we may yell them out, post them on social media, however we need to express those thoughts. But most of the time, the thoughts we have are usually sayings that we have heard and have stored in our memories. Self-expression is important. There are many proverbs and idioms as they are called but I’ll name the important ones.

Don’t burn your bridges. People use this all the time. Basically, if you need me and you do me wrong without a second thought, that’s a burned bridge and once you burn that bridge, its not easy to re-build. People think that they can do one person, several people or even family members wrong that they claimed that they were loyal to. Once you show someone that you aren’t loyal to them, like they thought you were, you have burned a bridge. Although anything can be re-built, the possibility of re-building a burnt bridge are very slim.

The grass is greener on the other side. Yeah right. You can look at anything you want on the opposite end of what you have thinking its better that what you have but looks can be deceiving. You are tempted in every way about something or someone but you go running after it thinking its better and in reality, its not. For a while, it seems like it is, but its not. You begin to miss that something or someone that you had and its nearly impossible to get it back because you thought the other side was better.

The pot calling the kettle black. This is one of my favorites. 2 people end up in similar situations. The 1 person is telling the other person how wrong they are knowing that they are doing the exact same thing. For instance, take alcoholism. Just because I have 2 drinks opposed to you drinking more than 2, does not make me right because we both drank.

You can lead a horse to water but you cant make him drink. Oh, how true this statement is! We make the mistake of thinking that we can change a person. We try everything we can think of. In reality, you cant change a person. That person has to want to change. Trying to force a person to change is going to backfire and your feelings get hurt in the process. Believe me, I know.

Don’t judge a book by its cover. I love this one. A person’s outward appearance is like a book cover; the first thing you see. We look at outward appearance and we automatically make assumptions. When it comes to other women, we think, well, she needs to go put some more clothes on, which is very true in some instances. We see a man with his pants hanging off his behind. We think, he needs to pull his pants up, which is very true.

But, we don’t even speak to the people we just judged so we don’t know the type of person they are. They could be 2 of the nicest people in the world, just with those 2 flaws. My favorite saying is, don’t judge a book by its cover, examine the pages. In other words, get to know people without making judgements.

To conclude my story, I want to say this. I chose these 4 sayings for a reason: to help someone. That’s the problem today. People want to find ways to hurt each other instead of helping each other. These phrases are heard all the time. People express themselves in their own way. Choose what works for you.