The Power of Words

       “Words are the most infinite source of magic, capable of both damaging and remedying.”(Albus Dumbledore) Words have always been powerful. They make people feel things, both positive and negative emotions. They have been one of mankind’s most powerful tools for years. Words can be used to create and destroy. You see both every day. When you talk to your friends, your using words for good, but when you have a rival, positive words are not used often. Words define a human being, revealing their personality, thinking, and who they are.

       Words can do more damage than just about any other weapon in the world. Not physical, but mental damage. In war, enemies try to distract you, get inside your head, turn you away from your goal and this happens everywhere. Rivals everywhere try to bring each other down with words in an attempt to sway them from their path to the goal. Words are a very powerful weapon in the wrong hands, and sadly, all the wrong hands already have them.

       Words are capable of immense damage, but also of immense healing. When someone gets hurt, someone often tries to comfort them by speaking to them as well as taking appropriate medical action, but if someone loses a limb, no amount of bandages will ever heal their mind. Only words can. Only words can heal the damage on the person, the same way music healed me after we moved. Bandages only heal the body.

       Words are everywhere and since they are infinite, some people use them where they are unnecessary. When someone dies, no amount of words can heal them because they have moved beyond word’s reach. No amount of words will bring someone back. Words can however, recover those affected by the death. They can heal the stricken, turn their mind from the passing of their friend or family member. “Do not pity the dead. Pity the living.”(Albus Dumbledore)

       Words have been around forever. They are conveyed from person to person, transport thoughts, opinions, and ideas through the air. They are capable of immense damage, capable of killing, but they are also capable of immense healing. They can bring those who are mentally gone back. Words are infinite, and always will be resulting in our tendency to use them where they are useless. People die and the living waste words after their respects by screaming for them to come back, but they won’t. These people are ignoring all others who were affected by the death, acting selfish by only thinking of themselves when they should be tending to those who were the most damaged by the death. Words can be used for both good and evil. It is your choice how you use them.