Influences: Part I

Awesome, beautiful, caring, decent, enjoyable, fair, glowing, hopeful, inspiring, joyful, kind, laughing, magnificent, noble, optimistic, perfect, queenly, respectful, smiling, tender, unique, valuable, worthy, xenial, youthful, zesty.

A word by itself is nothing but a word. Or at least that’s what many people think. But a word can be and is, so much more, even without a sentence to surround it.

The list above was found on a website, “Positive Words Research”, intended to improve people’s lives and inspire them with a list of single words. Each of the 1,246 inspiring words was chosen because they gave someone a positive feeling. They may have comforted them in a time of need. They may have been compliments when they felt like they weren’t anything special. They may have been whispered to them at night by a mother or a lover. Whatever the reason, the words all have the same thing in common: the ability to give someone a good feeling.

The same website also does something interesting with its subscription boxes. They are purposefully designed to give viewers a good feeling. Most websites ask you to sign up by typing a username/name and email address. The same is true for “Positive Words Research”, with the difference being their wording. Name is replaced with ‘Your lovely first name’, and email address is edited to ’Your best email address. Both of these have a positive influence, however small. The thought of a first name being lovely is encouraging and a little heartwarming.

New positive and inspiring words are added often to the list from ”wonderful people all around the world”. Now who doesn’t want to be part of the wonderful people group and have a lovely first name, and help reach others with encouraging and inspiring words. Everyone wants to be encouraged and happy. Everyone wants to feel beautiful, desired, and loved. And everyone can help spread these positive feelings themselves.

It doesn’t take much to be a positive influence. Just a few words.

A compliment to a stranger can change their whole day,

An I love you to a father can make his sadness go away,

Because these words are amazing, don’t you see?

You can create them; anything they can be.