Melih AbdulhayogluDecember 28, 2025
There’s an old proverb: “The axe forgets; the tree remembers.” Most people read this as a lesson about tone or delivery. It isn’t. It’s about what the axe is. A negative word is an axe. Not raised voices.Not anger.Not conflict. A single negative word — spoken casually, jokingly, or “without intent” — is an axe […]
