Trouble With Words

For centuries, our world has grown on words. The minds of the greatest authors are proof of this. Civilization clings to words like glue to your finger. The most obvious point that I see is that we need words to survive. Without words, we would have no way to express our joys and sorrows. Words are emotions. They help us bring forth new feelings and ideas we never knew we had. They can impose upon us the need to use them. Words are a gift that everyone has within their grasp, and it is up to us to snatch them while the opportunity lasts.

The trouble with words as I see it, is chat. Our scientific minds have turned to cotton balls and yarn with this new "development". It breeds stupidity and lack of knowledge. With chat, words become crude and harsh under the fingers of their creators. A beautiful sentence such as this, "I have to leave now." can be shortened into a ugly strings of letters like this "G2G".

Are you a lover of literature? Do you lament the fact that the majority of civilization has gone down the tubes with chat? If you are, you can do something about this injustice to life. It is up to us lovers of literature to strengthen the words in our life. We can use them more and more to express ourselves. In this way, we can help the greater population of people to adopt words into their lives again, like a sickly plant stretches to the sun after weeks in the shadows.

Note: This article was inspired by the Words Matter Week.