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There are times when a single word can change the weight of an entire day.
A sentence carelessly let slip can linger as a wound for someone, while a single phrase offered by another can gently brighten a once-dark heart.
Lately, I find myself often thinking about how light, yet how heavy, words can be.

Sometimes, one short remark from someone brushes against emotions long settled inside me.
Feelings I thought I had forgotten, memories I believed I had moved past, quiet anxieties piled in a corner of my heart.
A single word can summon them in an instant.
Yet there are also words that quiet everything.
“It’s okay.” “You’re doing well.” “I’m rooting for you.”
When such simple sentences slowly clear the darkness within me, I realize how remarkable the power of words truly is.

I begin to think about the words I choose to offer.
How carefully am I speaking?
Have I made someone’s day heavier without knowing?
Or have I, even a little, made it lighter?
The moment a word leaves my mouth, it is no longer mine.
In the other person’s world, within their past and their memories, it arrives carrying an entirely different meaning.
A single word, then, is like a small wave reaching someone.
Sometimes gentle, sometimes stirring something deep.

And yet, I like that about words.
Even if a single phrase cannot change the world, it might change one person’s today.
If it can offer even a brief pause of breath to a bruised heart, that becomes a small miracle.
Words hold that kind of miraculous strength.

So I want to become a warmer person.
Someone who speaks a little more slowly and softly, rather than leaving hurried wounds behind.
Someone whose care to understand another’s heart lingers at the end of each sentence.
Someone who can, with a single word, hold someone’s heart for just a moment.

I always ask myself:
What kind of day did the words I offered leave behind for someone?
And may tomorrow’s words be just a little warmer than today’s.