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Your last words.
Have you thought about them?
The great philosophers used to pose this question to pupils…
They believed that one could reasonably measure a mind by the words a person believed were worth leaving behind.
Great speech, they said, was a reflection of great thought.
How often do we truly consider what we say?
How often do we mindlessly let our mouths run on familiar verbal tracks?
The average English speaker says about 16,340 words a day….
How many of those words truly matter?
How many of those words uplift or inspire those around you?
It’s a tragedy that we no longer value language like we once did.
Open your ears and listen.
What do you hear?
Our sentences are shoddy, cluttered with “ums” and “uhs”, and we overwork the same stale set of words…
Not to mention using swear words like a comma.
I was at the gym some weeks ago running the treadmill when I overheard a twenty-something man next to me say on his phone:
“Yeah, I’ve been like pissed off at f**king Sarah for f**king months and she keeps saying that I’ve been a total a**hole. Like I literally have been the only one willing to compromise all this time. It’s basically over at this point.”
His tirade continued for another 10 minutes.
It’s not his fault.
And it’s certainly not my intent to pass judgment on his speech or situation.
He’s a symptom of a wider epidemic taking place in Western culture…
Society has created a global tongue of vague and vulgar expressions.
And speaking well?
It’s discouraged.
I mean, there are over 7000 languages in the world and most of us speak garbage.
Perhaps you’ve noticed it too?
This skill of speaking greatly seems locked away, reserved for an elite few – those who know that good communication is a superpower.
Our exposure to great speech is limited to the occasional movie monologue or sappy quote compilation on TikTok…
This has led to conscious, creative speech becoming a bit of a dying star—a white dwarf destined for a black hole.
It’s no surprise…
Most were never really taught how to speak effectively in the real world.
The Greeks used to send their young adults away for 2 years to master speech and rhetoric before taking their place in society.
Why don’t we take speaking well seriously like that anymore?
For one, the power of polished speech has slipped through the cracks of our educational systems.
The Education Reform Act of 1982 dissolved the teaching of rhetoric in public schools leaving it largely accessible to a powerful, privileged few.
Yes, they have a voice…
But so does everyone else.
Secondly, every individual person has a voice that deserves to be heard, even if it now only faintly cries out.
Very few people are being taught how to speak with intention or invention.
I’m not just about the loss of fancy words (you’ll soon learn that articulacy is not about big words)…
I’m talking about fading expressiveness, diminishing emotional intelligence, and a narrowing of thought.
Without the beauty of eloquent language, life defaults to a monotonous cycle: eat, sleep, work, repeat.
But with it?
A tree can be arthritic, we can handcuff lightning, and our tongue can become bulletproof.
Our words can be wonderful and wonder-filled if we wish.