Sticks and Stones

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me.

Who thought up that line of crap? It would be difficult for a thought to be more wrong, in more ways.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can wound the soul.

It's easy to hurt a body. It's also easy to heal a body. A little antiseptic, a band-aid, maybe a cast; and time. Big damn deal. They say time heals all wounds, they fucking lied.

The wounds left by words don't heal. I want you to take a few minutes right now, think back to your childhood, and try to think of the most hurtful thing anyone ever said to you before you were an adult...

Didja do it? Okay. Now if you're not at least tearing up a little, you didn't really do it.

Mind your words, they are potential weapons. Someone could get hurt.