The issue where words that 'stab' are stabbing too much, making me feel prickly

I cannot deny that I am being brainwashed.
I end up using the words I see unconsciously.
……Good morning, this is Momomaroumeko.

This morning, I'm going to write an article in a text format that you might find at some seminar.

Haven't you been seeing this a lot lately?

Words that stab people's hearts. Lines that seem to pierce the chest.
Developments that stab you right in the gut.
Wait, are they stabbing people with kitchen knives or daggers?

Originally, it should have been an emphatic expression for 'resonating with the heart' or 'stirring emotions,' but
before I knew it, everything has a feeling of 'stabbing' you.

For example:

• “This one word stabbed my chest”

• “○○-san's post really stabbed my heart”

• “A work that leaves a sharp thorn in your chest after reading”

Every reader is turning into a hedgehog, aren't they? lol

I think there are a few reasons why these 'stabbing-type expressions' are increasing.

One is the supremacy of impact.
Rather than 'resonating,' 'stabbing' carries more pain and vividness, making it easier to be favored as strong language in the SNS era.

Another is the homogenization of vocabulary.
Since you can easily summarize emotional movements with 'stabbing,' it saves the trouble of thinking about paraphrasing.

Also, it's convenient for showing off that you are 'someone who can read between the lines' or 'someone with strong sensitivity.'
You can easily project a sense of being 'in the know.'

But, what I want to say is this.
If everything is just 'stabbing,' the delicate gradations of emotion will die, won't they?

Emotions are much more colorful, complex, and soft.

• Kind words slowly soaking in

• Unable to speak out of sympathy, my chest aches with a prickling pain

• Problems weighing down heavily and dully

• Something suddenly being released by an unexpected word

• “I like this,” I felt a faint ache.

　Even though there are so many ways to touch someone,
it’s a real shame to just lump them all under the word “pierce.”

　
　That said, it’s not that the word “pierce” is bad. If you choose the right situation, it becomes a powerful weapon.

　For example, like this.

↑ This is the nuance of intentionally choosing “pierce.”

　Whether or not to use it is a matter of choice.
Words can be both poison and medicine.

　Also, you know?
Don’t you think, “Piercing is something you do with a physically painful tool in the first place!”?

　Kitchen knives, needles, thumbtacks📌.
Being moved shouldn’t be that painful, yet...
before we knew it, “it pierced me” became synonymous with being moved.

　Wait, who? What did you bring?
You just stabbed my heart with something sharp, didn't you!?
That’s the kind of feeling I get, lol.

　Perhaps,
the sensitivity of modern people has shifted toward a direction where we can only feel things through pain.

• Instead of “I cried,” it’s “I was gutted.”

• Instead of “It resonated,” it’s “It pierced me.”

• Instead of “It soaked in,” it’s “I was gouged.”

Aren’t we getting more and more aggressive?

　Even discoveries and realizations
now tend to be hammered in through pain.

　Getting poked with a thumbtack📌 is actually peaceful and cute,
but lately it’s more like,

• an electric drill

• a sniper rifle

• a real knife

I feel that level of intensity.

Do you want to stab and see the blood flowing from the heart?
In reality, I just want it to soak in gently, don't I?

I write with the image of cutting rather than stabbing with my words.
Like cutting your fingertip on paper and feeling a stinging pain afterward. I want to leave an impact even if it's small.