Power of Words

Story- 1

The Auschwitz Survivor’s vow.

It really makes a difference what we say. The words that come out of our mouth are so dangerously powerful.

I learned this from a woman who survived Auschwitz. She is one of the rare survivors.

She went to Auschwitz when she was 15 years old, and her brother was eight, and their parents were lost.

“We were in the train going to Auschwitz,” she told me. “And I looked down and saw my brother’s shoes were missing.”

And I said, ‘Why are you so stupid ? Can’t you keep your things together for goodness’ sake?’ “

The way an elder sister might speak to a younger brother.”

Unfortunately, it was the last thing she ever said to him, because she never saw him again. He did not survive.

And so when she came out of Auschwitz, she made a vow.

She told me, “I walked out of Auschwitz into life and I made a vow. And the vow was,

I will never say anything that couldn’t stand as the last thing I ever say.”

( Benjamin Zander)

Story -2

There once was a little boy who had a very bad temper. His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he must hammer a nail into the back of the fence.

The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. Over the next few weeks, as he learned to control his anger, the number of nails hammered daily gradually dwindled down.

Finally the day came when the boy didn’t lose his temper at all. He told his father about it and the father suggested that the boy now pull out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper. The days passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone.

The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence.

He said, “You have done well, my son, but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same.

The words that come out of our mouth are also equally powerful. No matter how many sorry we apply afterwards, the scar remains for ever.”

Really, Words are so dangerously powerful.