The Power Of Words

When I was younger, I would always lose quarreling with my sister. She's the one with the good vocab and strong disputes. She's 2 years elder, what do you expect.. And when i get too angry and can't fight her points, i'd hit her. Of course, she'd report it to my mom and i'd get lectured, sometimes even punished. My parents have this rule, we can never hurt each other physically. What they didn't think of was, words that could hurt us mentally. They don't know the power of words. They don't know how deep a person can get hurt with words. The power of words are actually much stronger than physical contact. A person can get hurt by another person even if it means they're on different sides of the Earth. When you're physically hurt, you feel the pain on your skin, on your wounds, but the pain goes away as time passes by but when you're hurt by words, you feel pain everywhere, the kind of pain that you can't lick on it to make it feel better, the wound stays in a place so deep that you can't reach but it'll always hurt to remind you of its existance and the only solution to that is your mind. You are the only solution to make yourself feel better. But no matter how strong you are, it'll still be there. It's like an ugly scar which'll still hurt. Words have a greater power than all of us. Parents, educate your children and make sure they never abuse that.

Inez.