There's a power in words, a quiet regality. The ability to transport the mind to another place, time, and experience is a gift indeed. We even think in words.

They can't be taken back once uttered, written, heard or thought, and that permanence of words in time is a humbling thought.

Humans struggle to grasp this mystery, in fact we fear it.

We fear saying or writing the wrong word. That's why pencils have erasers and why the delete button exists. It's our feeble attempt at controlling something larger than us, our minds.

Words are really just a quantification of the human mind because words mean nothing until given meaning, order, leverage and structure by the mind.

So we fear our own capabilities and the power our minds hold and most importantly our inability to control our own thoughts. So we try to control our words instead.