The Power of Ones words

Scotland has now reached its time to vote, but will either answer be correct.  Today I witnessed two friends having a pint together laughing enjoying life as we all should, but then one mentioned he was voting yes in the referendum and the other became slightly annoyed because he said he was voting no.  After a massive heated argument in the middle of the pub, one of them picked up his jacket and said he couldn't be friends with someone betraying their country.  I'm not going to say which friend it was that said it but, if anyone who reads this is voting, the yes voters will think its the no voter, but the no voters will think its the yes voter.  That is not the point of this, the point is to show what this vote is doing before the vote has already begun, its tearing up Friendships, Bonds, and even Family.  This vote is for Scotland, but it shouldn't tear us apart which ever the verdict is we are going to need these three things more than ever, and if friends feel that because one is voting/supporting something else, that they can't be friends then it just shows how much weight two little words, Yes and No, can destroy relationships that could of taken a life time to build.  If it has broken up one of these three things, then maybe now is time to repair them before its too late, friends can last a life time, supports of rival football, baseball, hockey, basketball and even rugby teams can be friends easily enough, then so can political views.  Words are deadlier weapons then anything mankind constructs to kill, but at least words can be undone, make sure some aren't final, because you don't know when you may count upon that Friend to be there when it counts most.

what do words mean to us?

after speaking to someone today I realized the strongest word to most people would be Family and Bond.  Both these words mean completely different things, Family doesn't need defining we all have our family in the world, our mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters.  Although that only names family bound by blood, which brings me to the other word Bond.  This word can have several meanings like the simplest would be saying bond is only used when you glue something together, like paper, but if you use bond in another concept you find that it has a strong sense.  We bond with friends, and eventually they become like family to us, friends becoming sisters and brothers, even though they are not blood related doesn't mean they aren't related in another way.  Word used loosely have one meaning but when you think about it they have another, loosely family means blood related or marriage, but the other meaning brings in a whole new perspective.  The Bonds and ties of friendships are almost unbreakable which is what makes friends become family.  So don't take a word at face value but also don't look too deeply into a word other ways the word itself could become useless.

What will come from this?

I will admit the Scottish referendum was one of the reason for this blogs birth, but its not the main reason.  Words are used in everyday life and we take most, if not all, for granted.  Hopefully this blog will help people see that words are not just things, we use to talk but that they also hold a lot of weight to what is said.  Take Promise for example, when you say you promise you won't tell someones deepest secrets to the person you promised, they have created a contract with you hoping that what they say will never see the light of day, but the person who used the word can either be sincere about it, meaning they will take it to their grave or that they are just saying it so you tell them.  The weight of words can be heavy, they aren't just something you throw around to please everyone, for the person who says Yes to everything they need to learn to say No as well otherwise they will become overwhelmed and their word won't mean anything anymore it could just be an empty promise.

Through this hopefully you will be enlightened to how much one sentence said to the wrong or right person, means to them.

The power two words can hold

Scotland within the next 48 hours faces one of man kinds toughest decisions, Independence or to stay as part of a union with their neighbours England.  This vote was brought up a few years ago by Alex Salmond who thinks he is doing what is best for Scotland by pushing this referendum, he might be right.  People have the choice on the 18th of September, Yes or No, two words people normally take for granted.  Two words, two completely different meanings but also at the same time quite similar, normally we think yes to be a quite positive word, and we normally take no to be negative, but can these definitions be can also be reversed, no can be positive as well as negative, but so can yes.  Whatever you would vote in the situation of the Scots its easy to say now, but when the day arrives will you really feel the same, as someone said, yes or no it doesn't matter which you pick, it just matters on do you feel it is right or wrong.