A Wise Old Owl

I learned a saying when I was younger by a neighbor who used to babysit me when my mom was gone to work. He made me and his children memorise it and I can still say it today word for word. It has a meaning to it and it may mean something different to you from what it does to me. This is how the saying goes:

A wise old owl sat in an oak.
The more he saw, the less he spoke.
The less he spoke, the more he heard.
Why can't we all be like that old bird?

What this means to me, taught by the very same man who taught me the saying, who I might add is a devout christian, is that God gave us two eyes to see more, two ears to hear more and mouth to speak less. He gave us two eyes and two ears to see and mouth to speak less so we can see and hear the beauty of God's creations around us.

So what does this saying mean to you when you read it?

An after thought: This saying can also be applied to ones writing. A writer sits down and observes what he or she is writing about, right? Well when we observe the surrounding around us, we have to see and hear but not talk. So you might consider the Wise Old Owl saying to be used in how we write our poetry, short stories or novels and anything else we can dream up.

Happy writing everyone.