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As a writer, you come soon to realize how words hold an abstract value.

Seemingly, not everyone is a master at handling them . Some words are ruined or smeared in a negligent writing action.  Worse, words do not reach their full potential and instead create destruction around them.

The ancient Greeks called the word "Logos"and gave it many meanings: thought, reason, sense, language, and speech.  Later, Logos even meant God.  Words are signs of our world, people, and traces  of human thinking.  Each word is a sign meaning something.  And all words are significant.

Sure, not all words have the same meaning, the same value, and the same power.  There are holy words and damned words.  Words belonging to temples, to shacks, to brothels, to the street, to poets, to thieves, judges or executioners.

Like everything we do, our thoughts and dreams start with words and return to being words after they reached their destination.  Words are the baggage we carry with us on the road of life.

“Tell me what words accompany you, and I’ll tell you who you are. “

Words are the treasures of human life.  The more words with rich meaning we put together the larger our world is, fuller, wealthier.

In Hebrew “אוֹצָר מִילִים(נִרדָפוֹת" means treasure of words, vocabulary, lexical language.  The largest site of dictionaries is called not by coincidence, "Thesaurus.”

So everything we do is expressed at some point through words.  What is truly human passes time boundaries through words.

Sure, there are crafts, which seem to leave out words:building palaces, monuments, composing music, painting or sculpting.  Creation without words?  True, for the most part, but above and below are the heavens and earth of words stretching to infinity.

Silence is the space between words.  Space is left to echo the words.  True, there is silence coming from empty words as well.  As there are many empty words.

Not all words are strong currency.  There are markets for trading words.  There is the economy of words and the inevitable inflation.  Many words devalue, get dirty, ugly, and they become dry and die.

Loving words too much is not a good bargain either.  Some people hide themselves and their imperfections behind words...  Loving obsessively the words, can result in alcoholism of words.

Typically, waste of words is a sign that something is wrong.  Either the mind is empty of thought or intentions are empty promises. Chatter, the mechanical grinder of empty words is, among many things,the sign of a serious lack of respect for words.  Abuse of big words usually betrays a narrow soul.  Pretentious words hide often emptiness of mind.  Void of thought.

But most importantly, there are words so deep and extensive that they fit the whole world in their meaning.  Words that end in infinity.  A word without end.  These words can write and have written whole libraries with their meaning.  They are supporting the universe.

Because the Word, Logos, means reason, intellect, mind.  For just as silence echoes all the words that fit the man and his world.