Ahmet Sahin                                                                                                           Humanities 111

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Words may seem just simple tools for writing and expressing ourselves, which are actually a gift to humankind. So easily we pour them between our lips, we sometimes can’t figure out how precious, creative, vital and even destructive they are. It was words what made us think, shaping civilizations and ruling the world step by step while challenging the nature more and more. But it was still the same tools, words, which made wars collapse civilizations, taking lives, and sometimes even self-destruction of mind itself.

So powerful, but also so difficult to be used by thoughtless minds, words can make quite a difference on us. Here, the literature comes into duty, helping us laying words through a path which will enlighten the countless questions of our subcouncious. Word architects, poets and authors help us constructing vital paths between the selfly dangerous parts of our mind. By binding those parts of our mind, we are more comfortable to hold our mind together and providing ourselves a good mental health, which is inevitably a must for a good physical health.

Despite the fact that words are the binders of the mind, they can also blow it up when they are shaped into lethal questions which bring nothing but chaos into mind. It is of course not only such questions like those looking for answers to beginning of life, existence of god and life after death. Many people have lost their mental health while they were struggling to find  scientifical answers for those questions. A jam inside the mind caused by storms consisting of words continue to ask again and again, “why?”, “when?”, “where?”; words which have nothing but suffer when they are used in such questions.

As to summarize, we can make words serve if we know how to use them, literature is a great mentor for that. But if we refuse to have this help or try the hard way which was experienced by others ,and ended very unpleasantly, we will get to the edge of loss of mind that is against the real mission of words. Without a compass, we have no chance inside the labyrinths of mind those formed by words.