Care and Careful

Careful and care are quite different from one another, but we often confuse them.Careful:

holding backwaiting until conditions are just rightbeing nice rather than genuinesaying what's expected, what's socially acceptableprotecting yourself - for the benefit of whom exactly?

Care:

coming in closeacting when it's neededbeing kind, which sometimes requires sharpnesssaying what will actually help, teach, free people updropping your defences so you can be of assistance

Careful keeps difficulty going when it feels too risky to act. Care does what it can to reduce it.Careful twists the truth for its own ends. Care speaks it.Careful is full of caution.And care is full of contact.

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