Actions Will Always Speak Louder Than Words Essay

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Second quote explanation: I think what Hesse is trying to say was that words don’t always express how we actually feel about some things, instead our actions . The words is our heads will always sound better in our heads until they are spoken, then they are interpreted differently by someone else way of thinking. Someone can find value and wisdom in things that no one else deems worthy of being valued. I agree with what Hesse is saying.
Actions will always speak louder than words. Someone could’ve done someone else harm and then feel bad about it, so they go tell the other person that they’re sorry, what’s the point in that? It doesn’t matter how many times they could’ve said sorry, nothing's going to change the fact that it was wrong. Instead of saying sorry to the other person, do something nice back to them. The more times they see you do that for them/ to
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This was in fifth grade, I bullied the kid for the first half of the tri-semester, but I didn’t realize the impact of what I was doing. Then one day I saw that same kid that I bullied, he was bullying another younger kid. What I saw was a trend, he was bullying that other younger kid because of me, I saw the potential of what I was doing. It made me feel so guilty of inflicting pain on someone else that I didn’t mean to harm. I consulted with one of my older cousins(he was in eighth grade at the time), he told me the best way to show that you are truly sorry was to show it to them not say it, I took those words to heart and I decide to employ them immediately to repair the damages that I’ve caused. Long story short, it took me the rest of the tri-semester to show him that I was sorry for what I did. I didn’t realize it at the time, but he told me that he too started to do what I was doing to the other younger kid and that he also witnessed what I saw earlier. Luckily the trend stopped before it causes more

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