Finding The Necessary Words

It ought to be easy, finding the necessary words. After all, there are so many words, and most of them do not mind how often you use them, or even – in most cases – what you use them for.

Words are easy like that. They don’t care if you use them in the wrong context, or in ways they were not meant to be used. The words don’t even care too much about how they are spelt. The words will sit there, where you put them, just happy to be out there. It is enough for them just to be used, rather than sitting crushed under heavy pages in the darker recesses of the dictionary, waiting for someone to stumble over them while looking for something else nearby.

It is lonely for the unused words, waiting there, other words are close by, but now word truly feels at home with words that don’t quite mean the same thing as themselves, each one is far too aware of their differences when they are pushed together like that. Definitions are important there, in the formality of the dictionary, not like out here where words run free of their meanings.