Power of Words Part 2
This is something that has been weighing heavily on my mind for quite some time now. I've been disturbed lately by the seeming obsession people have with tearing others down. I see this everywhere. On the news, between politicians, on TV, among writers, in families, in schools, in the work place, among adults and children alike. It's
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He was wounded when I was three. He slipped from a tree, breaking his neck on the fall. They said he'd never walk again, paralyzed from the neck down. He did. He had to use a walker then moved to crutches and finally used only one crutch, though he had no feeling in his body at all.
He said he'd always wanted to paint. They said you can't. He did. And the pictures he painted are beautiful.
No matter how many times he was told he couldn't do something he pushed forward anyway. He lived to be in his eighties before cancer took him and I never once saw him that he didn't have a smile on his face.
The last I spoke with him in the hospital I told him of my book. He smiled and said "You can do it. Just finish it no matter what."
You know what? I did. No matter how many said I couldn't.
Negativity breeds negativity and I'll have no part of it anywhere I am. When I pass by it on the street or read about it on the internet I cringe. Perhaps it's because of all those teens I've counseled who had been beat down, not by fists, but by words.
And this is strange that I happen to be writing a book about the damage verbal abuse can do to a teen. But maybe not, cause it still breaks my heart. Which is one reason I wish I could get this book on the shelves for adults.
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