I Believe in The Power of Words
I BELIEVE......
WORDS CAN HAVE POWER
I believe words, whether spoken or written can have power. They can bring happiness and joy, pain and sorrow, lift a person up, drag a person down, pierce a heart like a dagger. Words can also give hope to someone who thought they were dying. On another level, there is the power that words take on when you speak them. Just the action of taking your thoughts and putting them out into the universe makes them real and powerful. One should always be very careful before they use their words. Once they are out you cannot take them back.
This is not something I understood when I was younger. When friends from the neighborhood would come to the door to play I was very rude and would just say no and shut the door in their face. Always coming back the next day to see if that day would be different, would the weather have changed my mind? I was always very blunt, honest and uncensored with no one telling me it was wrong. I did not lose friends, but I did not have the closeness that others talk about with their best friends with the exception of one. Serena, my best friend from kindergarden through to today. We are still in touch thanks to the wonderful world of facebook. She was blessed not to see me very often when we were kids to know how bad it was, most of this was avoidence of my brother.
He is three years older and was much wiser in the ways of the world and more experienced in the weaponary of words. Knowing just how to flick and take small little knicks
or when to make a large slash and cause tears. All with the willingness to take what ever small punishment would be given for his reward. With further isolation and lack of communication experience words poured from my mouth with no thought of how they would affect others. Loud, accusing, hurt, where were those who were suppose to defend me when I needed them?
Obviously writing in school was very difficult. The lack of discipline
WORDS CAN HAVE POWER
I believe words, whether spoken or written can have power. They can bring happiness and joy, pain and sorrow, lift a person up, drag a person down, pierce a heart like a dagger. Words can also give hope to someone who thought they were dying. On another level, there is the power that words take on when you speak them. Just the action of taking your thoughts and putting them out into the universe makes them real and powerful. One should always be very careful before they use their words. Once they are out you cannot take them back.
This is not something I understood when I was younger. When friends from the neighborhood would come to the door to play I was very rude and would just say no and shut the door in their face. Always coming back the next day to see if that day would be different, would the weather have changed my mind? I was always very blunt, honest and uncensored with no one telling me it was wrong. I did not lose friends, but I did not have the closeness that others talk about with their best friends with the exception of one. Serena, my best friend from kindergarden through to today. We are still in touch thanks to the wonderful world of facebook. She was blessed not to see me very often when we were kids to know how bad it was, most of this was avoidence of my brother.
He is three years older and was much wiser in the ways of the world and more experienced in the weaponary of words. Knowing just how to flick and take small little knicks
or when to make a large slash and cause tears. All with the willingness to take what ever small punishment would be given for his reward. With further isolation and lack of communication experience words poured from my mouth with no thought of how they would affect others. Loud, accusing, hurt, where were those who were suppose to defend me when I needed them?
Obviously writing in school was very difficult. The lack of discipline