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Words: The Price They Pay

Amanda Kimmen
4 min readMay 7, 2019

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We have the power to create or destroy. You choose with what you speak.

Learning the Importance of Words

From a young age, I realized the potential words had. I grew up swallowing books (not literally, although that would be something) and the impact they had on my life was metamorphic. I began craving the words that would transport me to worlds with dragons and magic; not to mention the adventures that had me heavy breathing, eyes-gulping-down-the-words, begging for the antagonist to live another day.

I simply couldn’t get enough. Reading was anything I could ever ask for. But then, one day a thought weaseled its way into my mind: what if I was the one captivating others with my words? What if I could enrapture someone’s mind so deeply that they simply couldn’t get enough?

So I did it, I began my writing journey. Started out pretty rough since I would start writing and obsess way too much over the grammar and flow of the words rather than getting my point across, but eventually, I let go of all the rules and just wrote.

Words became my best friends, they held my hand from the rocky start all the way to a professional writing degree in college. Even now into my post-college state, words stand by my side like an old friend.

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Amanda Kimmen
Amanda Kimmen

Written by Amanda Kimmen

Writer. Avid reader. Stay-at-home astronaut. Prone to be obsessive when I really like something.

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