The Power of Words

I’ve always been an avid writer. The English language was always my favorite subject in school, and writing “short stories” was never homework for me. I could spend hours writing anything from imaginary tales to real life scenarios. I struggled with spelling for years, and it wasn’t until my ninth grade English teacher pointed out how “lacking” my writing was compared to another peer in my class that I decided writing wasn’t for me.
Oh, but it is. Writing is a part of my soul, it’s who I am. I can take a jumble of words and arrange them in a away to make you laugh or cry. I can put into words on paper my feelings, but I can’t always get them out of my mouth. There is something rewarding about compiling a bunch of words that come straight from the heart and bleed onto lined paper.
It wasn’t until recently that I stepped back in a situation and reflected on  just how powerful words can be. Words have such an impact on everything we do on a day to day basis. Within seconds of waking up and breathing that first breath on a fresh day, the first few words you chose to speak could dictate how your day goes.
In all situations ranging from speaking to your children on their way out the door for school to speaking to the cashier that rings you up at the grocery store, your words weigh a lot on not only how the person interpreting those words accepts them, but also on yourself as a whole. The most dangerous part about what you chose to say and how you to chose to say it is once it’s said, it cannot be undone. Once those words bleed from your mouth, whether it’s positive or negative, those effects are permanently embedded.
If everything you spoke from the moment you woke up to the moment you mumbled that last prayer of the day was written on a sticky note and stuck to your body, would you be proud? Or embarrassed?
Would the words you muttered to the man that cut you off in traffic this morning be acceptable for your six year old son to read? Would the words you said to your twelve year old when you got that call from the school about him fighting (again) suitable to be read to a group of your peers? Would you be ashamed?
Let’s play a game. In all situations today, think twice before you say anything. Would you feel comfortable repeating it in front of your child? Grandchildren? Spouse? God? Is it uplifting, positive, and reinforcing? Or is it demeaning, negative, and hurtful? Rethink the way you say things because once that damage is done, it’s done.
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