The Pen is Mightier than the Sword

Has it ever occurred to you that maybe an emotional wound can hurt much more than a physical wound? That maybe the wound made by words can be so much harder to heal then, say a wound made by a weapon? That is what I am going to be talking about today, how the pen is mightier than the sword.

A pen doesn’t only hurt people though, it can make people smile and even laugh, all you need is the right words; it can also make you cry, for example, if you’re reading a sad poem, if the author of that poem uses the right words, the reader can just burst into tears over it; it’s all in the way something is written. The pain from a sword is fleeting if you are given a fatal blow, though it is still excruciating; even a small wound stings, but it eventually goes away. The pain from a pen and the written word can drag on for days and months and even years, wounding you on the inside and never totally healing.

A sword can represent death, since that is what it’s used to achieve. When someone we know dies, we mourn for them, and we cry as if it’s the end of the world. After that person dies, something inside us dies as well, a gaping wound that we think will never heal, and our lives will never be as they were. But even that wound will almost close after a few years go by, and we learn to appreciate the time we were given with that person, and we remember the happier times. You know that person wouldn’t want you to forever mourn their passing, and they would want you to go on with your life; so you fulfill the wish that you think they would want.

With a pen it’s a totally different story. What is written on paper can have a more emotional effect, since the pain from a sword is more physical than emotional. Emotional pain cuts deeper than any weapon could, whether it’s someone making fun of you all the time, saying your stupid, ugly, etc; some people can take those insults in a way they’re not supposed to. But enough of the depressing aspects of the written word; words can also make you smile and laugh. In a book, the jokes the characters make can be funny, so you laugh at them. If something good happens to a character, you’ll smile, because you’re glad that things worked out for them.

In conclusion, the point I’m trying to make is that written words will have more of an effect on a person then any weapon could, the wound will be much deeper and harder to heal. Thank you.