“Sticks and stones may hurt your bones,

“but words will never hurt me.”

This is a saying that has been around for ages and adults are always telling
us this. But it is one of the biggest lies I have ever heard.

These sticks and stones hurt and injure your bones but this only lasts for a
couple of minutes; your bones will eventually heal. But words hurt in two
places that never heal: your heart and mind.

Words leave an open void in you, aching in pain forever. Words can make
a confident person the most insecure person. A fun loving person can
automatically be turned into a shy unhappy miserable person. They will
never go away.

Harsh words affect people greatly more than any injuring punch or act of
violence could do. They change a person’s attitude towards life, they
change the person.

So why insult someone?

You will soon forget it, but this person may never.

It will always be somewhere inside them, in a dark empty void.