The words they told me.

Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.

Yehuda Berg

You can see their eyes, zeroed like it after two.

Their arms standing in a melancholic way like they need to sit.

Their faces in a swollen way like they just contacted a new virus.

Their eyes blinking rapidly like an unstable light.

When they speak, you'd hear the pain there like a pregnant woman who has been asked to push.

The words would keep rushing out like a dam which had just been broken.

Those words of theirs as crippled a very strong soul.

When their words get to you,it brings happiness into their heart.

Those words they said to me and here I stand like a teacher who is always ready to teach her pupils.

They've said the words to me now it my turn to have them taught.

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Word is the combination of the alphabet in a structured manner,which as a meaning to it..

Words have gotten to us all to tell us about who they think we are and what they prefer we do.

These words have been heard by countless people and some have fall prey to them,believing all that came out.

Tife the small village boy was told these words countless times.

He was the second boy in the family of two boys and two girls.

Tife loves creativity, he's always curious,he wants to know why the sky is blue, why the woman next door seems to have a big stomach recently, why the moon follows him at night, why the sun can't rise in the North and all other curiosities.

His parent could not answer all as they don't know much themselves and they wonder how he's always full of energy.

Some of the villagers do not approve of this and tell their sons and daughters to stay far away from him like he got a disease.

That didn't stop Tife from bringing things together and see what'll happen, like the day he brought out a wood and used another sharp stick on it playfully but alas it brought out fire.

One of the villagers who saw this told another and the news spread like wild fire.

They called him all sort of names and stayed away from his family too.

His parent never minded and love their child nonetheless, to them, he is a blessing.

Tife was a bit pained that he had no friends but he never gave up because his family were with him.

He continued trying different things out and creating new things.

The creativity of his bothered the villagers a lot so they came over to have a talk with him.

They said many negative words to him,like you'll never make it in life if you continue playing around with things and they gave instances like: didn't you see Kaalu ,you are of the same age and he is already caring for his family.

They kept on coming when he never listened to add more to the negativities they poured out.

Tife was tired of their coming over and they were happy that their words was already getting to him.

Their dance of victory became lost when he created something new, a cart with the help of his siblings who cheered him up.

The villagers became furious and spoke to the king who chased them out of the land.

On their way they met some good people who helped them but the problem was,this people have a different colour of skin and could understand what Tife had done.

They helped him and taught him more and they are amazed he turned out more than they expected.

After many years, Tife was asked to go to a village to teach them as a request from the King.

Tife was made the head of the team and when he got there,he realized it was his village,he saw the now old villagers who had spoke out negative words to him.

Now he sat them down and taught them how to make their life's better and they sat there with teary eyes to listen to their teacher.

Conclusion.

Many a times the odd is against us in what we do.

We'll be told to give up and go for something else.

Negative words will be fed to our souls and break us down.

The world which our fore father's knew is not the same we live now.

Different creations and innovations have taken place and still going to take place.

These innovations was done by curious minds which were chided for thinking like that but they never gave up.

Don't let their words get to you, won't you like to be like Tife and have those who said those negativities said to you be taught?.

Teach them like he did and never give up on your dreams.

Talks would go around no matter what you do.

Be real,be you,be genuine and put God first.

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Writer :Balikis

Date:18 May 2022