What Can I Say?

There are 26 letters in English. But letters become words. And words come together and express ideas. Ideas are immortal. Words express ideas that make people understand something in a new way. Words can make your knees melt. They can make you furious. They can motivate you. Words can convince you that you can do something you've never dreamed of trying before. They can make you feel invincible.

Words have founded religions. They have stopped wars. Words have established countries. They have broken families. They have sentenced innocent fathers to death. Words have inspired revolutions and have brought curses upon nations. Words have made more money than any other commodity in the universe.

How many thoughts that I think on a daily basis are the result of words spoken to me? How much of my identity is based on the fact that somewhere two thousand years ago wrote something down? How much of my past and future are based on words I said or questions I asked or things I should have said but didn't?

26 letters. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

This post was originally supposed to be about innovation (and I was going to post the video I promised the Larsons) but I think I like the way it turned out. So I'll save the other one for later.