WORDS

The most powerful thing on earth might just be a single WORD. To someone who needs incouragement the right word can lift a spirit. An angry or hurtful word can crush a spirit. You have heard the statement: "Sticks and stones can break my bones but words can never hurt me".....well, the person who wrote that has never been the receipant of hurful words. The words we use should be careful selected....BUT.....we usually, quickly and with little thought, spew them as freely as breathing in air....they just pop out of our mouths like kernals of corn in a popcorn popper over heat.
Words (and the acceptance of them) have vastly changed over the years. Years ago filthy words were rarely used by "run of the mill, normal folk"because people cared how the world perceived them and filthy words usually meant a person with little morals or one who often lived a rough and rowdy lifestyle. BUT today too many of our youngsters and young adults finds the "F" word perfectly acceptable and they use it so freely you'd think they were void of the knowledge that there are adjetives, adverbs and verbs to fit every occasion. They are not even aware that the "F" word is not an adjetive. They are not aware that it makes them sound cheap and low life. They don't even care. They think it makes them "fit in" or modern or cool ....and that is the tradegy of it all. AND have you noticed how many misspelllled words there are here in this blog LOL. See, we just don't pay much attontion these days to words.....and that is a shame because the words we use so often define us. Have you ever been listening to someone talk ..... you stand there enjoying the conversation thinking what a nice person they are AND THEN they come out with a less than acceptable word.....and, by just the use of that word, your whole impression of them changes. I just hope that I live long enough to see the "F" word fade away like mini skirts and leisure suits. My children have said to me before..."Mom, it's just a word" and I say,"Yes, it is JUST A WORD" but we should stop and think about the power...good or bad....of that single word, Okay?