Do you really mean that?

What? No! That hairstyle makes your ears look tiny!

I was listening to someone speaking yesterday. They were saying how, in times past, words meant so much more. If someone made a promise or said they'd do something, then it would be done- without question. The person who said it meant it and the person who heard it believed it. Sadly this is no longer the case. People say things all the time because it's the simplest response or because it's what they think the listener wants to hear. Spoken words often go no deeper that the sound of which they make. They are spoken to be heard in the fleeting moment and forgotten, not to be imprinted in someone's mind or heart.
As a Romanticist (this being the very opposite to a Realist), I take words at face value and believe them all the time. This is because I love words and I love humans and because I have a never quenching desire to seek the best in people and believe they have kindness and love and interest as their sole motivation. It's an incredibly unrealistic view of the world sadly however, and results in me being frequently disappointed and let down by humanity. It upsets me that the further I go in life, the more I want to hold onto my Romantic view and yet, the more skeptical I have become of people and what they say to me. For so many, words are far too easily spoken. Perhaps some day there will be a reversion and words will have the value they were originally endowed with again; or perhaps I will learn to be less trusting and lose faith in human conviction. I hope the latter never happens though. There's not much hope left if one gives up on human goodness*

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