Words

There is power in words.  Power in the way words are put together.  They say, “A lot of the time it’s not what you say, but how you say it.”  This can mean the tone of your voice or, more importantly, the words you choose to convey your thoughts.  You mean one thing, but because you used a synonym for just one word, it becomes something that has a negative connotation and things become misconstrued.

The word is mightier than the sword in that it only takes an utterance of a few words to catapult two nations into a war, and it takes thousands and thousands of swords, or weapons, to end it.  Many times even that isn’t enough, and it takes words from both sides to end it.

They say, “Silence is golden,” and “Speech is silver;” but if your speech is coated in wisdom, then it should be worth your weight in gold.  Conversely, if your speech is dripping with ignorance, it isn’t even worth the oxygen it took you to articulate the sentences you put together.  Silence is great, but too much and you’ll be overlooked.  Speech is the same, but instead of being overlooked, you will lose listeners and be ignored.

Words can be sugar-coated and sweet, or hard like consonants.  They can hurt, rebuild, connect, tear down, inspire, and deter.  Words in the hands of someone with a forked tongue, is as dangerous as lighting a spark under someone with oil on his tongue—and I don’t mean that literally.  If someone who can talk slick gets inspired, there’s not much that can stop them from getting what they want.  Depending on what they want, this can be a good or a bad thing—either way, it is dangerous.  That is why it is important to think before you speak.  If people listen to you, even your empty words hold a lot of weight.

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