Words

Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words can do more damage than you can ever imagine. Words have the power to both build someone up as well as tear them down. Words can give hope when all hope seems lost or turn their hearts dark with rage. Words can be lethal, causing people to grab a knife and drag it across their skin, watching as the blood slowly drips down their wrist. Or worse, all the hate they get becomes too much for them to handle, so they tie a rope around their neck and play hangman with themselves. Because to them, death seems like the only way out of this dumpster fire, they call life.

But words only have as much or as little power as you give them. Words can be rendered powerless. How you may ask by not caring what anyone thinks anymore; going emotionally numb. Because you've been beaten so much that it no longer has an effect on you, but that doesn't mean it does hurt. You still feel pain, but since you are the person who cries wolf to them, you are ignored. There are two kinds of people in this situation. Those who are always angry and those who don't have the strength to fight back.