For the longest time, my profile quip on Steemit has been "I like words."
On Twitter it is: "Creative. Bearded. Individual. Photographer. Digital Artist. Human Being. Believes firmly in the right to daydream and have provoking, philosophical discussions."
All of the things that you've just read are of course, words. When you string them together in a certain order, they can make you feel one way, in one moment, and completely different in another.
They need context, too.
She looked at him in contempt.
Who is she? Who is he? Are they in a relationship, or is she the survivor who witnessed, from the passenger seat, him drunkenly ramming his car through a red light and into her son? Is she the judge handing down a sentence?
There are certain words that sound like magic when spoken. Here's a short list:
Cathartic - you can't help but feel catharsis when you say it.
Vulnerable - It has a certain beauty as it rolls around your mouth.
Mayhap - Half way between maybe and happen - perhaps not a real word, but widely used.
Ephemeral - It doesn't stick around forever.
Fragile - It could break apart at any moment, or wouldn't take much to break.
Perhaps - I like this just as much as mayhap.
Why are these words magical when spoken? To me, it is because they provoke thought; and a sense of urgency. You can't possibly ever do everything you ever want to do, because you simply won't have enough time.
Some unambitious people may have a "bucket list", or as I prefer to call it - a list of menial tasks to do. or things they want to experience before inhaling their final breath.
Me? I'll take every chance to knock over the bucket and send its fluid contents spilling out onto the surface of the Earth. It's because words seem to be the most permanent and enduring things that we have. The language of the ancient Egyptians, Romans, and Greeks are still studied, and through those words, we can learn; we can story, and we can experience.
Words are, beyond genuine experience, the most vivid way to render an event or occurrence to another. It's a storybook with no end, and infinite possibility.