WORD POWER
Hi Everyone, Today I learned that 100 new words were added to The Merriam Webster Dictionary. One of them is "frenemy." I don't remember ever hearing this word before. Yet Wikipedia says it first appeared in print in 1953. I do, however, understand it's definition. Frenemy is defined (by words of course) as someone who acts like a friend, but they are in reality your enemy. They may say certain things that make you think they are your friend, but this powerful act of saying something in such a way as to trick you and hurt you gives great power to their words. And it gives them power over you. All the while they are smiling passive aggressively at you while sticking you in the back. Hence they are your "frenemy." I have experienced such a relationship (actually more than one), and the words they used indeed carried great power. I was a child, I heard "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never harm me. " This is pure unadu...