When used well words can take us inside someone else's head, so we can experience what it is like to lose a child, or the miracle of having one. Through words, we can communicate, comprehend, understand, and learn from one another. Exactly. Your post is the perfect example of this. Words have the power, for good or ill, to affect other people's lives, in ways we may not understand when we speak them. The fact that we can communicate, over the ether of the internet, and make a connection that is as strong as it is, makes me so much more aware of that power. Somehow the act of writing words down seems to make their effect more obvious to me. When I'm speaking, sometimes the words just fall out of my mouth. When I write, I have to think about the words. Through the act of writing in Livejournal, I have been made more aware of how common the hopes and fears and joys and all the inbetween emotions are to everyone. When I know that what I write can make someone across the continent feel comforted, I become aware of how my view of life affects more than just myself. There's many ways of looking at something. We can either just see white light or the rainbow. My hope is I can start seeing the rainbow. White light gets really boring after awhile. What a lovely way to look at living. I like that very much. Thanks for your words, s'kat. Hope mine make some sense. Oh, and I hope your back feels better! Have you ever tried massage therapy? It has worked wonders on my poor back, after all the years of wear and tear from 30 years of nursing.
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Date: 2004-11-05 10:13 pm (UTC)Exactly. Your post is the perfect example of this. Words have the power, for good or ill, to affect other people's lives, in ways we may not understand when we speak them. The fact that we can communicate, over the ether of the internet, and make a connection that is as strong as it is, makes me so much more aware of that power. Somehow the act of writing words down seems to make their effect more obvious to me. When I'm speaking, sometimes the words just fall out of my mouth. When I write, I have to think about the words. Through the act of writing in Livejournal, I have been made more aware of how common the hopes and fears and joys and all the inbetween emotions are to everyone. When I know that what I write can make someone across the continent feel comforted, I become aware of how my view of life affects more than just myself.
There's many ways of looking at something. We can either just see white light or the rainbow. My hope is I can start seeing the rainbow. White light gets really boring after awhile.
What a lovely way to look at living. I like that very much.
Thanks for your words, s'kat. Hope mine make some sense.
Oh, and I hope your back feels better! Have you ever tried massage therapy? It has worked wonders on my poor back, after all the years of wear and tear from 30 years of nursing.