"Dara is the most useless person in this house. Useless girl. So so useless." Words uttered in the heat of the moment. Words that weren't true. Words that tore the Dara into a billion tiny pieces. Words that stuck in her heart. Words that could never be taken back.
I don't think we get it. Words can be swords used to kill and they can also be lifesavers. When we use our words as swords, they cut deeper than real life swords because most times the people that say the most heart slashing things to us, will never kill us with a real sword.
Words can heal, cure, build, restore, encourage and give hope.
Words can cut, slash, destroy, kill, weaken and break.
The choice is yours.
We really need to understand the weight our words carry. It may be a little innocent sentence from you but it'll be the sentence that finally tips the person you addressed it to over. You really don't know what that person beside you is going through so before you use your words to kill the person off just stop and think. Would I really kill this person with a real sword if I had one in my hand right now? Probably not? I thought so. Therefore, why use a sword you can't see but have with you to kill the poor soul?
Watching T.V after the Woolwich killing in London has been downright painful. Apart from the obvious horror of the whole story, the array of words being used by both the media and the public is quite worrying. Of course the immediate response on seeing or hearing such news will be to gather up the strongest most soul cutting words in the English dictionary to describe the suspects and their acts. Of course, you want the suspects to feel like the devil himself. I did too. However, there is compassion in the middle of all this (the woman who tried to nurse Lee Rigby back to life) and that seemed to have been almost completely lost or ignored. I definitely ignored that. It took a facebook status acknowledging and saluting the nurse to change my whole perspective on the story. Very few words in that status, but my down trodden spirit was suddenly revitalised. Initially I wasn't going to write anything about this story because I thought there was nothing good about it and frankly I don't think a story that has no good side should be re-told over and over again as it only weakens our faith in mankind even more. Nonetheless, I've also come to believe that EVERY story no matter how horrific, terrible and bad will have a tiny tiny tiny light somewhere in it that we've just got to search long and hard for. Maybe the word, "light" is too strong. A tiny tiny tiny glow.
Finally, it CAN be done. Our good words CAN outweigh our bad words. Will it take work? Yes. Will it take time? Probably. Will it be worth it at the end? Absolutely. This planet might actually be a lot nicer place if we all just spent a few moments to think about the words we say BEFORE we say them. To people and to ourselves. There are some people I know who never have anything negative to say. I'm sure they have said some soul piercing words in their lifetime, don't get me wrong. But, somehow, their encouraging, building and healing words always seem to outweigh their killing, destroying and cutting words. I don't know about you but a world with more people like that seems like this planet will be a tadd bit better. It all starts with your next sentence. No one is perfect, but no one is completely imperfect.
With all my love,
Dara Rhodes. X
I don't think we get it. Words can be swords used to kill and they can also be lifesavers. When we use our words as swords, they cut deeper than real life swords because most times the people that say the most heart slashing things to us, will never kill us with a real sword.
Words can heal, cure, build, restore, encourage and give hope.
Words can cut, slash, destroy, kill, weaken and break.
The choice is yours.
We really need to understand the weight our words carry. It may be a little innocent sentence from you but it'll be the sentence that finally tips the person you addressed it to over. You really don't know what that person beside you is going through so before you use your words to kill the person off just stop and think. Would I really kill this person with a real sword if I had one in my hand right now? Probably not? I thought so. Therefore, why use a sword you can't see but have with you to kill the poor soul?
Watching T.V after the Woolwich killing in London has been downright painful. Apart from the obvious horror of the whole story, the array of words being used by both the media and the public is quite worrying. Of course the immediate response on seeing or hearing such news will be to gather up the strongest most soul cutting words in the English dictionary to describe the suspects and their acts. Of course, you want the suspects to feel like the devil himself. I did too. However, there is compassion in the middle of all this (the woman who tried to nurse Lee Rigby back to life) and that seemed to have been almost completely lost or ignored. I definitely ignored that. It took a facebook status acknowledging and saluting the nurse to change my whole perspective on the story. Very few words in that status, but my down trodden spirit was suddenly revitalised. Initially I wasn't going to write anything about this story because I thought there was nothing good about it and frankly I don't think a story that has no good side should be re-told over and over again as it only weakens our faith in mankind even more. Nonetheless, I've also come to believe that EVERY story no matter how horrific, terrible and bad will have a tiny tiny tiny light somewhere in it that we've just got to search long and hard for. Maybe the word, "light" is too strong. A tiny tiny tiny glow.
Finally, it CAN be done. Our good words CAN outweigh our bad words. Will it take work? Yes. Will it take time? Probably. Will it be worth it at the end? Absolutely. This planet might actually be a lot nicer place if we all just spent a few moments to think about the words we say BEFORE we say them. To people and to ourselves. There are some people I know who never have anything negative to say. I'm sure they have said some soul piercing words in their lifetime, don't get me wrong. But, somehow, their encouraging, building and healing words always seem to outweigh their killing, destroying and cutting words. I don't know about you but a world with more people like that seems like this planet will be a tadd bit better. It all starts with your next sentence. No one is perfect, but no one is completely imperfect.
With all my love,
Dara Rhodes. X
Hmmm Dara, this makes alot of sense...
ReplyDeleteThank you. :)
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