In the shade of words

Words may be imagined as a bridge between people: they can bind people, they reveal, they liberate. However, they can be used as a shield, as a way to hide and to protect yourself. The verbal communication is a true and sure form of communication, since words are signs which at least theoretically have the same meaning for all the speakers. But how sincere are they actually? A weak person can easily hide in the shade of words to create themselves a certain image in the eyes of the others, dramatically different from the real one.

I am not describing the communication technique of a manipulator, who wants to induce the others a certain behavior. On the contrary, I am describing a person who wants more to protect themselves from the others, than to control them. Thank to words, a speaker or a writer may seem, for example a strong, confident and level-headed person, insensitive to the insignificant things in life and very realistic. The others didn’t manage to see that the person is in fact very diffident, dreamy, easily hurt and pessimistic. The situation represents a turn in the role of words. Instead of revealing the speaker, they isolate him, and this turn is performed by the speaker himself. Internet facilitates this turn, since many people cannot meet and know each other directly. Words are used to hide even when we communicate face to face, so imagine how easily can the public imagine be manipulated by the speaker on the internet.

Using words as a shield will sooner or later become overwhelming and the created image will become suffocating, since the speaker won’t be able to rise to the level of his prototype. Frustration will emerge, self confidence will diminish even more, so why risk choking my identity with some beautifully polished words that do not speak the truth about me.

My point is: I will not use this blog to hide in the shade of my words. I won’t express myself thoroughly, but I will write what I consider relevant to be written on a blog – and those posts will be sincere, as I would rather stay in the light of words, than in the shade of them.

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