Don't remember her name but she was somebody to UN from India or from UN to India. Still remember vividly that piece of news article read back at home in Dogadda in which she wrote that words are important as they have consequences. It became central theme of many of my endeavors while in college.
Then there came a time when i saw "Great" just to annotate the ordinary, "Wonderful" as a token of appreciation for something as worldly and average as it could be. "Legend" to denote what will prove just as transient as a few years. yesterday only one of my very good friends tried to convince me that he could "literally" eat "any" number of kurkure packets. :)
Superlative representing mediocrity. Coupled with an attempt to make all words fit in fewer keystrokes, it got worse to my appetite for words. Even Humpty-Dumpty seemed wiser in "Alice in Winderland" : "when i use a word, i use it for its meaning; nothing more, nothing less."
While all this was going on, there were many things and many times, emotionally, when i realized at times we just share each other's sorrows and joys by just feeling them as if our own without uttering a word; and to withstand anger of our loved ones over nothing. Added to those were feelings of preparation to attempt the trickiest and treacherous heights of goals; And the feelings of let-down before a comeback; and the fortitude.
"Words are important as they have consequences."
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Liked this part
"at times we just share each other's sorrows and joys by just feeling them as if our own without uttering a word; and to withstand anger of our loved ones over nothing."
There are times when words fail and silence speaks .:)
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