Dear Steemians
Hearsay simply put means rumour. That is information received from another person which cannot be verified. A lot of people are agent of hearsay, they are carrier of rumours. And rumours can be very dangerous. An incident that occured in my area informed this post. Let me try to narrate the event as it happened this evennning.
There was a lady in my compound that saw her landlord worked past their backyard. He never knew why he past that way. Coincidentally, water finished in the compound. The lady told another neighbour that the landlord switched off their line and disconnected them from having water. The second lady, on hearing it did not care to verify the information, she went straight to meet the landlord and started quarrelling. The landlord was taking abak and he asked who told her and how did she know he put of the water. He was angry at the lady's attitude. Well to cut the story short. It was later discovered that it was not the landlord but that the water got finished in the tanks and needs pumping. The lady in question was ashamed of herself and could not talk again.
It is very wrong to work on hearsay, you may be heading to your disaster. Hearsay can make you regret your act. If can deny you of great opportunity. Though there is a popular sayjng that there is an element of truth in every romour. Even at that it is important to find out the very element of truth. Dont work blindly, make effort to find out the veracity of the information available to you.
What are your source of information and how true are your and original is your information. Remember when information past through hands it get distorted and become hearsay.
A wife set fire on the husband for hearing that the man was seen with another woman, she concluded the husband was cheating on her. It was too late when she got the real gist. A man sold all his property away on hearing that the world was about to end in 2000.He later regretted his action.
Dont work on hearsay but do a diligent work to find out about an information before acting on it.
Live sweet and be great.
Thank you for reading.