VALUE YOUR WORDS!

Writing my last blog post, I had no idea what to write on next. My head was actually blank and I was still promising a blog the following week (see boldness🤦). But you know, you only posses such boldness when God is on your side (remember I prayed to him and he obviously read my write-up😂). Anyways I promised a new blog every Friday, so here you go!

Hi guys!. You’re welcome to another episode of “veewrites”. Today I’m going to write on WORDS (it’s five letter’s today😂).

WORDS

Words are the most powerful tool on earth and it’s so cool to know that God gave them to us. I mean, he put the most powerful tool in our care. Did you know that?

If you know the kind of power your words have I’m very sure you would place so much value on them, I’m sure you would treat them like gold. So that brings me to the title of this write-up VALUE YOUR WORDS

Story time…

About 13 years ago I was in primary school. Primary two to be precise. I was young and I had no worries. I loved going to school because that was where I could express myself as a child and mostly because I loved playing. I was play itself, I still am (gosh I miss being a child😭).

Anyways, on this very beautiful day, I woke up early, had my bath and I was ready to go to school. I was so excited for school because we were all going to recite the 2 times table and I had been practicing for weeks. I was more than ready.

I got to school, played with my friends, gisted with them about the recitation, etc. I can’t really remember what happened that day but I know we had two classes before the maths class. I couldn’t wait!. I was so excited.

Finally… the maths teacher came, we greeted her and started the class. She spoke on a few things before the recitation started. She asked us to start according to our names on the class register. My surname starts with the letter “I” so I had to wait a while. Finally it got to my turn, I stood up happily and started reciting. I said the first three, but I was stopped after that. Why was I stopped?. Let’s find out!

My teacher stopped me and these were her words to me. She said “Ibeh can you please recite it properly?, you’re slowing us down. I wonder why you keep stammering. I’ve told you so many times to stop stammering. If you know you’re going to stammer while talking then don’t speak at all”

Those words up there, are words I can never forget even if I tried to.

At that moment my confidence died.

Do you know what happened next?

I sat down quietly and never said a word during math class again. From that day I was so conscious of my speech. A child who had no worries became so worried about communicating. Can you believe that?

I knew before then that there was something wrong with my speech. I remember my mum always telling me to “calm down” whenever I spoke but I never cared about it. I was a child and the only thing I cared about was food, cartoons and play time with my friends. But after that day, everything changed. I barely spoke and whenever I did it was only a few words and that’s why most people thought I was the quiet one amongst my sisters which isn’t true (I’m a talkative 😏).

My teacher’s words did all that to me…

The reason for this short story is just to show you the power your words have.

Your words carry life.

They have the power to create or destroy.

They have the power to bring both joy or sorrow

They have the power to heal or kill

They have the power to mend a broken heart or make it worse

They have the power to build confidence or destroy it

It took me a while to get over my teacher’s words. It wasn’t easy at all but with the help of my parents, sisters, a few friends who knowingly or unknowingly encouraged me it didn’t matter to me again.

But also know, that her words helped me. It helped with my speech. At some point, I started seeing it as a challenge to speak better (everything in life is based on perceptions). Whenever I remember “If you know you would stammer while talking, then don’t speak at all” it challenged me to speak better, it challenged me to speak without stammering. And today I can say that I’ve progressed. I still stammer but not as bad before. Infact not many people know I do.

YOUR WORDS

People would always remember the words you say to them. Think about it, I still remember my teachers exact words to me and this was like 13 years ago. Learn to say the right words because you don’t know the effect it would have on the next person.

The hurtful words you told someone 10 years ago might still hurt them today. The beautiful words you told someone a week ago might still make them smile today. Your words are gold, don’t spit out venom, your words are precious, learn to use them wisely.

Lastly your words are you. What you say is who you are and if you value yourself as much as I think you do then you would speak words of value.

Nobody would ever value someone who spits out curses and defaming words. Learn to speak life and hope. Let people know you as that person whom they trust to encourage them when they are down not someone who totally brings them down. Let them see you and see hope. Let them look forward to hear your words because they know it would lift their spirits. Let them learn to be good from you.

Allow your words put smiles on people’s faces, it has the power to do so. Let them think about you and remember the nice words you said to them. Trust me, it goes a long way.

So that’s it for today guys. The power of words. I hope you enjoyed reading😁. I’m sure you’ve had to deal with people’s words too. Let me know in the comment section the effect it had on you whether good or bad. I’d love to hear from you.

Till next tine

Lots of love

Vera❤️