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Prof. James Brown Moisoiu Adelina- Mihaela

Course: Texte 1st B Chinese-English, group 11

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Words kill people

We are born as savage, unsocial creatures. Since early age our parents teach us words

and we slowly start to make connections in our little brains. It all begins with a simple mom

or dad and after many years of education and life experience we learn to express our needs

and thoughts in much more complex phrases.

Living in a society has raised the need of communicating with each other in order to make our

lifes easier. Dealing with words and the art of using them is the most important weapon that

us, as human beings, own and control. Being aware of the fact that we can give impetus on the

other people or situations, we can take advantage of this power of using words by creating and

spreading positive or negative feelings.

According to Buddha, Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will

hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.I strongly agree with the idea that people

can be easily affected by what they hear, because as far as we know, words are the tools we

use to express our feelings. Since the beginnings of the humanity, people started investing

emotions, getting attached to each other and strived to please and win somebodys attention

by different means. When special bonds are built between people, every word uttered has a

huge significance for the other. A word can hurt more that physical force because it affects the

mind, and the mind owns the control of our entire being. By hearing harsh words coming from

persons that we consider important, we let them affect our mind by giving them a deep

interpretation. Humans are conducted by the mind, and every process happening there has a

paramount importance for what can happen with our whole being. Wrong ideas produced by

hard words can lead to self-destruction if the reciver is an emotional person. They poison their

minds, give them a distorted image of the reality. Its like blindfolding and hindering us from

seeing the real truth, that is only in our minds, not in the others.

However, people are usually emotional weak , dependent on what the other people think and

say, too sensitive to what society think is normal and they strive to keep up with the standards,

tags, and what is forced to be considered as normal. Any idea that is out of the normal

principles of the society is considered to be wrong, and thats the point where all this conflict

starts from. What is more, as an example that people let words control them are the recent

surveys that clearly show that people are less and less happy than they used to be a century

ago. Not to mention the concerning rising number of the suicides commited because of

different levels of depression.

Words are dangerous. They can affect ones mind for a very long period of time. They can

traumatize soemones childhood and have severe effects in the adult life of that person. For

instance, Ive heard numerous cases in which the parents used to have serious or violent

discussions in front of their child. As a result of this thoughtless behaviour, the child raised up

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with difficulties in adapting to different groups, communicating and interacting with other

people or in worse cases, the child itself becomes violent and has a behaviour that gets out of

control. In addition, there are often in the news, cases in which a couple of lovers end up

dramatically with one commiting a suicide just because the other said a few harsh words which

hurt the feelings of his mate. However, the case that impressed me the most was the one in

which a fat person went on a harsh diet and lost so much weight, that it became anorexic and

had health problems, just because people used to laugh and make disturbing jokes about her

physical appearance.

To end the ideas expressed earlier, I need to headline the fact that words, unhandled with care,

can rotten ones mind and destroy their image about what is good and right for them. They will

try to change their own reality and this way lose themselves, become something that they cant

identify with. By letting words affect our minds, we also let them affect our lifes, for all those

misconceptions they lead to will slowly start to kill the person we really are in order to

become something different, in our striving for perfection.

On the other hand, looking at the the positive part of the situation, we can also say that

words can save people. Words that are carefully chosen can save a situation or change

somebodys life . They can erase the killing effect of some previous bad words with their

magic healing property. The right word said at the right moment can have a substantial effect

on a person, boosting its mood and energy. When we hear the words that we yearn for we

gain more self-confidence, we feel more comfortable with ouselves and we have that feeling

of being more strong and no obstacle can stop us from achieving anything. The most common

example is the situation when a simple and sincere i belive in you can do more than other

material helps. Words of wisdom, comming from the heart can mean a lot for the one who is

listening and can change the way he/she sees life. Words can be the fuel when there is no more

zest for life or energy to keep going on. Thats why we need to support each other and

encourage us in achieving our goals because words dont cost a thing and when they are said

with all heart can have amazing effects on people. When we share positive feelings through

words we recive the same thing back. I belive that words are a priceless gift that we own and

we shouldnt be afraid of using them more often with more courage because nothing bad can

happen and after all we have nothing to lose.

To draw a conclusion, I should remember the fact that words are powerful tools that we

own and we need to weigh and choose them with wisdom when we speak to somebody, for we

must be aware of the fact that what we say can have deep consequences on that persons life

and way of thinking.