A single word possesses the ability to stir a feeling within you, and it’s this emotion that triggers a reaction.

Your response causes pain, yet it was the utterance of this word that brought you to this point.

A seemingly ordinary word, a collection of apparently random letters, woven together into something ostensibly meaningless.

When said out loud, it can’t be touched or seen, avoiding most senses.

Nevertheless, it lingers, and it still stings.

This apparent meaninglessness metamorphoses into something profoundly significant.

Language, a marvelously beautiful, diverse, and magical tool, can also be an instrument of harm.

Words stick in our minds like tangled hair in a brush. Once we pull out the hair, it’s gone forever; we can’t put it back. Likewise, words disappear, fading away like echoes after we say them out loud.

Once spoken, we can’t take them back; they escape our lips, traverse the mind, and transmute into something forever altered.

Recognize the impact of words, and you gain the strength to navigate through them.