words, just words

Words, what power do they have over people?

I am not sure what I mean, I am trying to figure out how some words can just mean so much to people, stop you in your tracks, just one word, it is not the word really though, it is the emotion behind it that carries the real weight, so one word can have many different effects on people depending on where they are coming from, the emotional impact of some spoken word can not be foretold as you speak many words to many people, so you can be having one conversation with someone and they come away with a totally different story of events, but that is down to them, how are you supposed to know, language is supposed to help us communicate, sometimes it just gets in the way and confuses things, muddles thing up for people. I have many of these ‘’trigger’’ words, loads, cant figure out why though, some of them are good, sparking some memory that makes me smile, some don’t have that effect, some words spoken result in a heavy feeling that just makes me look away and sigh, this all down to memories associated with the word, what are memories though but elaborate emotions, every memory has many emotions associated with them, some feeling that that accompanies the event, these memories can either taint something or make it a good thing until you learn to move past the past, your past and make your present, your future something that is not a repeat of something that drags you down, again and again.

Some words however you just like, preamble, I love that word, not the meaning, not the emotion, just the word, preamble.