There is the saying: "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me." That is very much a half-truth. Words may never hurt one person; but, it could always hurt another person. The interesting thing about words is that they do not harm the body. However, the words can go through the body and hurt the person's mind. In short, words can hurt a person by inflict all sorts of emotional wounds. The interesting thing about words is that anybody that can communicate can use them.

In regards to words, they can cut a person deeper than any sort of blade. It pierces deeper than any sort of gun. In a sense, words tend to ignore all sorts of defense. You could wear Kevlar body armor and still feel the sting of a few well place words. You could lock yourself in a room with metallic walls and it still would not matter. As long as you can still hear words, nothing can protect you.

The use of words could be far more destructive than attacking with a punch, kick, or a knife. The thing about physical wounds is that as long as they are nonlethal, you can recover from them. Words attack the mind and cause all sorts of emotional harm. Unlike physical wounds, emotional wounds are far more difficult to recover from. Medicines and procedures to treat physical wounds cannot be used to treat emotional wounds. As a result, words can hurt. Words can hurt a whole lot because of that.

The mind and body are linked. Without the mind, the body cannot function. It is the brain that sends all sorts of impulses throughout the body. Also, it is the brain that stores all of those different emotions.

When we get emotionally hurt, it keeps us from doing all sorts of things.

Example One:

Say that you are in the middle of a basketball game and you end up losing. However, the team still did a great job because of the high score count. But, someone decides to badmouth you and the team. It only takes a few well placed malicious words to do the trick as a result.

The team could be hurt by those words that they lose concentration in practice. Because of this, they cannot make proper shots, passes, and other things. At the next game, the team ends up losing big time. Those hurtful words have broken the team's concentration.

One such example of such demoralization would be Don Imus' remark to the Rutgers University women's basketball team.

Example Two:

A few well placed destructive words could do a person in. Say

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