Can we be who we want to be?

Is swearing simply the "profane" or is it also the unnecessary? Is it the words themselves or is it even the circumstances where the words are used, that is "swearing"? Is labeling something that is sacred and special with words and phrases that trivializes the same as swearing.?

I think 'yes" it is all of this. The problem sometimes is that the words come out of ones mouth with too little thought. The day moves on and the best of intentions get left behind as we just give to little thought to what we say.

Quotes from Alice in Wonderland, or a day in my own life

Caterpillar: Who are YOU?

Alice: This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. I -- I hardly know, sir, just at present -- at least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.

Got up with the best of intentions. For that matter I go to bed with the best of intentions. Then again I speak to the ones I care about with the very best of intentions but then on the other hand I just often don’t say what I mean. Who am I? I just may not be who I want to be. I probably need to, just at the present, at least, remember what I wanted to be when I got up and what I wanted to try again to be when I went to sleep. Did I really change several times? Mostly this rambling gets down to my own poor language. Faulkner makes poor language interesting and colorful. On the other hand it just may be the case that less color is better.

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The Duchess: I quite agree with you. And the moral of that is: Be what you would seem to be, or if you'd like it put more simply: Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.

I think the Duchess has it. Words often don’t reflect how we really feel. Words sometimes just as we hear them come out of our mouth remind us that we must have changed several times during the day.

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Alice and the Cat: But I don't want to go among mad people.

The Cat: Oh, you can't help that.

Cats apparently have a message. In the play, Cats, the Cats said, “One had the experience but missed the meaning”. In Alice, this cat suggests that the people are mad. The issue may be not what the people are or even the particular experience but the issue maybe who are we, and can we be who we want to be?