Words
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I'm not very good at this. The process of clarifying the thoughts that I have in my head and communicating them in the exact way that I want to is very difficult and it is a large part of the reason that I approached James and Kyle about starting this thing. (Trying to avoid using the words blog or blogger at all costs). To illustrate how bad I am at this, I recently found some notes scribbled down in one of my notebooks from over a year ago that were brief thoughts about this topic that I'm finally going to write about. It's taken me over a year to go from deciding that a certain topic is important and thinking that I should actually write about it, to following through with that urge. That's a problem for me, one that I hope to improve on with this site which I'm treating as a makeshift online diary, but the problem is not necessarily the lack of coherent opinions, but in word choice. The selection of which words to use and which to leave out is incredibly important to me, and I think it should be to everyone, definitely more so than it currently is.
We have a words problem, and the problem lies in saturation. There countless outlets now to share our thoughts and feelings and opinions on any thing that we choose, that we are flooded with words all day and become numb to it. (I'm aware of the hypocrisy.) I am just as much a culprit of this as anyone, especially when it involves sports, and I tend to say the first thing that comes to my mind, even if those words don't precisely describe what I want to say. What gets lost in this sea of words is the meaning behind them, which is the very thing that make words important. Words matter. They have to. If we aren't held accountable to the things that we say or write, then theres not much that actually does matter. We all have heard the phrase that "actions speak louder than words", and thats inevitably true. That shouldn't discount the value of the words that we use though. Too frequently we see examples people brush aside the things that they have said previously and act like they don't matter, simply because they were said in the past. And I'm not demanding repercussions for any poor word choice. I just want us to place a higher value on the words that we choose to speak or write, and make some sort of concerted effort to choose those words that we use every day more precisely. That is what I am using this particular piece, and this site in general, to do.
Ok, I have to go ahead and post this, because if I don't I will tinker with it forever. I don't want to admit how long I've had this pulled up already.
-Jarred Stindt