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If only if only....
I don't think that many people ever truly realize the difference that a few words can make. Not just in a day, but in somebody else's life. Words have so much power; the power to cause sadness, the power to tear apart another person's heart. And yet words can also be the source of some of life's greatest joys. Never take anything for granted. Never think that something is assumed by somebody else. Tell them. Words don't have to be in verse, or in some profound work of literature to be heard, but they have no meaning until spoken. Happiness and sadness can both be caused by single syllables. Think of the power behind "yes" and "no." Two, three letters, and yet those two words hold perhaps the greatest power of all.
If this seems like a random rant, 6 words a few minutes ago made me rethink...well, everything. They brought fulfillment, tears, and joy as well. Yet they led me to wonder, led me to reconsider, led me to ask over and over again, what could have happened? Led me to wonder, what could have happened if only I knew of their truth all that time ago? Would my life now be different? Perhaps not. But this happiness would have been a hundred times greater then than it ever can be now. If only I had known. If only I had heard. If only those words had been spoken then.
Keep reminding people. Use words for joy. They have so much to give, but they do nothing without a speaker. The dictionary may have thousands of definitions, but it has no meanings. We give words their connotations, their effects.
The past is long gone. Usually I'm quite contented to let it be. Yet tonight those 6 words changed everything. And now I can only sit here, writing useless lines. It was easy to let go of the past. Yet it is more difficult to let go of those six words, the ones that could have made the past so much more precious. If only.
I don't think that many people ever truly realize the difference that a few words can make. Not just in a day, but in somebody else's life. Words have so much power; the power to cause sadness, the power to tear apart another person's heart. And yet words can also be the source of some of life's greatest joys. Never take anything for granted. Never think that something is assumed by somebody else. Tell them. Words don't have to be in verse, or in some profound work of literature to be heard, but they have no meaning until spoken. Happiness and sadness can both be caused by single syllables. Think of the power behind "yes" and "no." Two, three letters, and yet those two words hold perhaps the greatest power of all.
If this seems like a random rant, 6 words a few minutes ago made me rethink...well, everything. They brought fulfillment, tears, and joy as well. Yet they led me to wonder, led me to reconsider, led me to ask over and over again, what could have happened? Led me to wonder, what could have happened if only I knew of their truth all that time ago? Would my life now be different? Perhaps not. But this happiness would have been a hundred times greater then than it ever can be now. If only I had known. If only I had heard. If only those words had been spoken then.
Keep reminding people. Use words for joy. They have so much to give, but they do nothing without a speaker. The dictionary may have thousands of definitions, but it has no meanings. We give words their connotations, their effects.
The past is long gone. Usually I'm quite contented to let it be. Yet tonight those 6 words changed everything. And now I can only sit here, writing useless lines. It was easy to let go of the past. Yet it is more difficult to let go of those six words, the ones that could have made the past so much more precious. If only.