Can you see how other languages can give you other perspectives? You might feel differently about decision making if you only had to "take a decision" ("tomar un decision" in Spanish)" instead of "make a decision." And German word "angst," (roughly; a feeling of existential anxiety) might immediately pinpoint how you feel, when you can't quite express it in English.

Better Understanding Through Language

You gain not just words when you learn a language, but ability to understand things better? Who can speak more precisely about snow; someone with three or four words for it (snow, sleet, powder); or an eskimo with 23 words for it? And which is more efficient, German "zeitgeist" (roughly; taste and outlook of a period or generation), or paragraph of English you'd need to say same thing?

Other Advantages Of Learning A Language

Did you know that most people experience a general improvement in memory from studying a language? There's more. Are you geting older? It has also been demonstrated that you can halt age-related decline in mental function by learning a new language. You can tuck that little tip away for later in life, or better yet, start learning a new language today.

"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal." (Martin Luther King, Jr) Words have POWER.

Now, about other truth - that every action has an opposite and equal reaction. This is a proven scientific truth. It is also part of creed of every major religion. In Wicca it is three-fold law - everything you do comes back to you three-fold.

In Christianity it is embodied in 'You reap what you sow."

In Eastern philosophy (and now Western also) it is called 'Karma'.

It is also reiterated in our language:

Troubles come home to roost. Don't dish it out if you can't take it. What goes around, comes around.

It is Universal Law of Cause and Effect.

What is my point? My point is that we all use words in one form or another every single day of our lives. Use them to help, to heal, to uplift - because that law of cause and effect works BOTH ways. You get back bad you dish out, but you also get back good.

Words can help or they can hinder Words can hurt or they can heal Words can beat down or they can uplift Words can destroy or they can create Words can be source of sadness or source of joy Words can be hateful, or they can be loving Words can make difference to another human being Your mouth is a gun, your tongue is bullet - it is always loaded. The trigger - trigger is your mind.

Would you point a loaded gun at your child? At your neighbor? Your wife or husband? Your mother or father?

Words have power. It kind of puts this Proverb into perspective, doesn't it? It is better to be thought a fool than to open your mouth and be proven one.

Unfortunately, proving ourselves fools is not only effect that opening our mouths and 'cutting loose' has sometimes.