The words we use have a power all of their own
By Eric CarrollReporter, The Voice
People open their mouths everyday and their words are let out into the world. Some of those words are positive and some are negative. The only changes are with whom these words are spoken by and with whom these words are spoken too.
There is an old phrase that say’s, “a picture is worth a thousand words.” Well there are some words that are worth more then a thousand pictures. Here are two simple words, like and dislike. I choose these two, because they are two words that we are taught as children no matter what the language you started to learn from birth. Though we are shown love and hate, we are instructed to use the words like and dislike in place of love and hate. Coretta Scott King said about hate, “Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.”
As we grow up we come across people, places, and things that we say we love or we hate. However, what do we know about love and hate? We do not get to define what either is until we get into about second grade and these words appearing in one of our weekly spelling test. So on Monday we get our five or ten words and on Friday or Thursday we have to have wrote them with their definition three times and wrote a sentence to go along with the words.
Then the words go away and the pictures keep coming, because now we have defined what these words are. We still do not know what these words mean unfortunately some of us never really get to know what the meaning of so many of these words that we use day in and day out mean. Lord Byron said about love, “Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.” Words are the greatest gifts that we as people can give one another and they’re “free”. They are suited for every situation; there are even books out on how to use words and the power of words.
Another great thing about words is that if you want to express yourself to someone or to an audience. You can have complete strangers or people you know listen to your words and help you to choose the most expressive ones. So let us choose our words as we choose our meals (carefully).
