Thursday, 2 October 2025

Words

 Words can have emotion, but can be mere talk without action.


Choice of
words reveal more of those who utter them - and the listener has a choice to be informed, ignored, injured or inspired.

Perhaps it is more useful to realise the words that are not used, purposefully left out, rather than the words actually chosen, spoken and written, to size up the true situation.

Words articulated can have the effect of dried leaves blowing on a windy afternoon.  They can have no meaning beyond the utterance.

Other words expressed can remain in our heart or memory many years later.   Some of such words only make sense or implication many years later, for example when we deeply miss some one or catch up again.

What one says or writes can make the day more positive or delightful to another.    On the other hand,  when we receive unfairly construed negative remarks, we can be more determined to not lower ourselves to such toxicness.

Words, once let out, are never easy to detract.

Keeping silent at times says more than a gaggle of words expressed.

When in love, words exchanged are just an option.   Body language and expression can be more intense than verbal dialogue.

Intense emotions are shown by human beings without the need for words.

What I understand as the meaning of a word may not be understood in the same way by another we converse with.

Words utilised can be meant to bully, humiliate or put us down.   Communication can be worded in such a way to make us lose interest in reading everything -  and we should be triggered to be vigilant with such senders of such words.

Some achieve so much more with a minimum use of words. Others achieve not much in using too many words.

Words can bond us together, whether in a political catch cry, or in cultural and religious words of comfort, or simply in what we recall what our parents and siblings used to say to us.

Words recalled can take us back to a place, sensation or time from long ago.

Words can make us snap out from binding procrastination or make us reflect more before acting.

Words are indeed echoes from our way of thinking, inner selves and how the outside world treats us.

Carefully crafted words do  structure the way society runs, point to ideas and inventions, justify our choices and make the person we truly are.

Loosely used words lead to inclarity, informality and the dilution of a well trained and developed mindset.

Words used set the pace and tone for a culture.

Specific words are landmark posts in the journey of a lifetime.


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