The Internet, Energy & The Stories We Choose to Believe

Okay, this next thought might sound slightly insane, but stay with me.

What if words are literally a form of energy?

Everything in the universe operates through energy, frequencies, vibrations, movement. So why wouldn’t language carry energy too?

 

I once read about that famous water experiment where researchers used two bowls of water. One bowl was exposed to loving, positive words while the other received hateful, negative language. After freezing them, the positive bowl supposedly formed beautiful crystal structures while the negative one looked chaotic and disorganised.

Now yes — the experiment itself wasn’t properly peer-reviewed or fully reproducible. So I’m not treating it like absolute scientific fact.

But the idea behind it still fascinates me.

Because even if the experiment wasn’t perfect, we already know words affect living beings emotionally and psychologically. So maybe language influences more than we fully understand yet.

Maybe thoughts really do shape reality in subtle ways.

And honestly, mindset changes everything.

A positive mindset doesn’t magically solve life, but it absolutely changes how you approach opportunities, failures, relationships, and dreams. The version of you that believes growth is possible will always move differently than the version constantly trapped in negativity.

But at the same time — and this is important — we are not our thoughts.

Thoughts come and go constantly.
Some beautiful.
Some dark.
Some irrational.
Some inspiring.

You don’t have to identify with every thought your brain produces.

Now this connects to something even bigger: media and influence.

Earlier I said words can control the masses. And honestly, we see this every day.

A school speech.
A politician addressing a country.
A religious sermon.
A manager presenting an idea to a team.
A viral Instagram reel.
A news anchor talking about war.

All of them are presenting their version of reality.

And most people accept information exactly as it’s delivered because modern life moves too fast to investigate everything ourselves. News spreads globally within seconds now. Social media algorithms decide what millions of people see, feel angry about, support, cancel, or fear.

That’s real power.

Media can inspire incredible change, awareness, unity, and progress. But it can also manipulate emotions, twist narratives, and trap people inside endless negativity.

Especially lately.

Wars.
Violence.
Division.
Constant outrage.

Sometimes it feels genuinely difficult to stay mentally positive while consuming the internet every day.

And maybe that’s why being intentional about what we consume matters so much.

Because every piece of information creates tiny “micro-impacts” on us. Small emotional shifts that slowly compound over years until they become part of our identity.

The people around you affect you.
The content you binge affects you.
The music you loop affects you.
The words you repeatedly tell yourself affect you.

Everything compounds.

Which means the person you are today probably won’t exist five years from now.

So the real question is:

Who are you slowly becoming through the things you consume every day?