To make this point simple remember this: Words can mislead, but the body never lies.

This applies to everything from a person’s body language to what they choose to do or not do.

What a person does says more about them and speaks more about their feelings and intentions than anything they say.

A person can say they want to help, but if they don’t do anything helpful or attempt to help, then they don’t want to help. If they say they’re sorry, but then they continue doing the same thing, they’re not so sorry after all. Apologies are nothing in word only, the action behind them what repairs harm and trust.

The reverse is true too. If someone says they don’t want to sign up for a tryout at school, but then you see them at the tryouts, then something in them wants to try out more than to avoid trying out. It could their intere ...