Words are sneaky little things.
You think you’re in charge of your own thoughts, strolling around confidently inside your brain like the boss of you. But then — BAM — someone casually drops a word like apple, and suddenly you’re picturing Granny Smiths, Honeycrisps, or maybe that one shriveled thing in the back of your fridge you’ve been avoiding since last October.
Words tie directly into our emotions, whether we like it or not. They’re like emotional remote controls. Some people know how to use words to comfort or inspire. Others use words to sell you a mattress you didn’t know you needed at 2AM while watching late-night television. And some people — the really dangerous ones — use words like moist just to watch the world squirm.
But let’s go back to apple.
Say I tell you: “I brought you an apple.”
