Watch what you say!

With all this talk about language, it got me thinking about my personal life. I've always been somebody who uses sarcasm as a second language. This has often led me to situations that were awkward, offensive to someone else, and entirely avoidable. Still, I wasn't one to stop the sarcasm, mostly due to habit. I just always assumed that people knew me well enough to understand when I was being serious and when I was being sarcastic. Apparently, not everybody understood me this way. One day over the Christmas break, I met up with a girl who I always had a crush on, and apparently, she had a crush on me throughout high school. Quite frankly, she told me about a time in which I made her cry due to something I said. I don't remember what I said and when she told me what I did, I thought to myself that I would never actually mean those words. I know I was being sarcastic in that situation. However, she did not. We are on great terms today, but due to that miscommunication, I could have ruined a friendship forever. Thankfully, it didn't turn out that way. We need to all be aware of what we say and how we say it!