The ol’ proverb: “empty vessels make the most noise” has always stuck with me over the years.
You also don’t want to be labelled as one because you’re going to remove any authority you may have over your audience etc.
When you’re shouting from the roof tops and echoing what has said without any conviction you are committing the sin of being an empty vessel.
With the way social media has infected our brains, we’re often pushing for changes or ideas without really standing behind what we mean.
Without getting too political, you see it with the current day social justice warriors. They just hop onto anything that’s popular to get a little bit of internet currency.
Creatives like us get stuck into it as well. We often start to water down our ideas, our stories and the things we create.
If you have a certain set of beliefs and you stand by them (Even when challenged) you are far from being an empty vessel.
I’m wrong more often than I’m right and I course correct my beliefs as I learn and grow.
That’s the way the world should be. That’s the way we need to stay true to ourselves.
Don’t be like one of the many internet weirdos who hop on band wagon after band wagon just to be part of the “In” crowd. It’s a form of misery that loves company.
Don’t be an empty vessel, cause they’re just loud and obnoxious.
Stephen Walker