Deleated Words

How simple it is to hit the "delete" button, and then the old text or e-mail is gone. I've always wondered though what happens to what we delete. It was there one moment, and then gone the next. I have a hard time imagining those words to be completely gone though, to no longer exist. I mean when we throw out the trash and it's taken away, it doesn't actually disappear, it's in a dump. Do our deleted words then go to a virtual dump? Wouldn't that be interesting to go to such a place and see peoples words scattered in a field, piled on top of each other. I wonder how this virtual dump would be organized; alphabetically, by theme, maybe by date? I like to think it would be by theme. Perhaps all the love messages would be stacked up together, and the angry ones in a pile, and all the confusing, and misspelled words would be in another. Do you think people would go through them to create their own love letter, or hate-grams? Hmmm...a used love poem, that would be interesting. :) Anyway I digress from where I actually wanted to go with this. I wanted to think about what happens to our words, or rather, what happens because of our words, whether they were typed and sent to someone or spoken face to face. We think that it is rather easy to say something and delete it, but it's not. Whether there is an actual dump site for our words or not, I believe they never really go away. When you tell somone that you love them, they cherish that, they remember it; those words help build them up. Likewise when you say something horrible to someone, they remember it, but it tears them down. Even when the exact words are forgotten the meaning isn't. We may think that we can delete something and forget it and move on, but I don't think it's ever that simple. Even when we say we're sorry, it doesn't instantly erase the words we've said previously. We should be more careful with what we say- words are very powerful. It has been words that have inspired people to do great things; it has been words that have caused people to fall in and out of love; words that make us laugh and cry, to fight or to create peace; it's words that make us think and decided who we will vote for; words that give us direction, and knowledge; it is through The Word that our world and all of us were created. We should be careful with our words, because what our words create cannot easily be deleted.