Amachree Isoboye Afanyaa

A Cocktail of Words Amachree Isoboye Afanyaa

Growing up in my elementary school days I never liked reading, I preferred watching cartoons and listening to music. Opening books seemed impossible to me, because I thought to myself what are these black inks written on papers and given to us to read. My imagination was everything to me, that was how I perceived my world and honestly I couldn't care less what Mrs. Jones was saying in class. One of those days Mrs. Jones noticed that I was paying attention to something else in her class. She calls me aside after class to have a chat with me and from where she was standing as a teacher and a mother, she introduced the beauty of words in a book to me, showing me how my imagination and love for animations, pictures and motions are all a product of both the spoken and written words and how I should embrace it to create that desired future. That was my spark, my Eureka moment and since then, I have embraced that unit of creation, treasuring her and drawing from her to create and redefine my world. Ever wondered how our world operates? How everything seems to touch one another, leaning on the energy that comes from each other? All of this in my observation stems from what I describe as the unit of creation and this unit is WORD. Nothing works if there are no words, words are the currency of transaction, which practically enables how the world works. Its intangibility goes to prove that what we see is a slave to what we do not see and the material world is created by this intangible realm. Every profession, career, civilization, desire and all that follows, begin from that unit of creation, the building block, WORDS. It is firstly conceptualized from that realm, designed from the unseen and expressed for all to see. All of these are made possible by the agency of words that flows from the human vessel. One thing is very interesting in the appreciation of this factor, one not being aware of its influence does not make it non-existent, it is like gravity, and it is rather waiting to be taken advantage of in building great futures. In creating a great recipe for success and greatness, be it as an individual or as a corporate entity, one ingredient that is the only ingredient needed is WORD and one beautiful thing about it, is that it is inexpensive. It really does not cost a thing for its acquisition, but its usage will cost you everything if not appropriated wisely. The WORLD IS BORNE FROM OUR WORDS.