For me, home has come to encompass the global village which has continued to expose how interconnected we have become.Come All You Little Persons by John Agard, illus. Whilst I'm at it, there is now an opportunity to write this fourth book which I like to call a "Post-Script" of the trilogy just as I am home to live, to educate, to be educated, to work, and even to lead.
Having worked hard for almost a decade to be part of the community where I was born, the man-made challenges I have faced so far have made it imperative that my pursuit of happiness shall take me to a new direction, in order to stand for something not just against something. That is exactly what happened, and whilst words tend to bring wishes into being, the task ahead now involves utilising such an ability for our common good with our general well-being at heart. Yet, with hardly any new stories to write about, I could only hope through faith, whilst believing that a story would unfold as long as there is life and the will to live it. For instance, such was the case one summer day when I opened a business account for my writing business with HSBC at their former branch on West Nile Street in Glasgow, and a keen account adviser, Callum, had asked me the following question "so is this going to be a trilogy then?" "Yes", I'd replied without thinking it through, except for the fact that a trilogy sounded like a better accomplishment than just two books. Even at that, our collective Will To Live out our dreams and aspirations can be found represented in those tales of adventure in those stories of how coincidence and spontaneity combine with optimism to produce a certain creative urge. That was how I found the right words to effectively summarize three books, by turning stories of adventure, trials and triumphs into a novel. However, words without deeds cannot just be enough because actions speak louder than words in most cases. In other words, we can become a summation of our thought processes and a product of the words we speak. That was how the biggest movement of change in recent history gained the kind of momentum required to turn the son of a single mother into the President of the United States of America.
As human, we often under-estimate the power of words, especially those with the possibility of bringing into existence that which otherwise would not be, or to reinforce destiny. After all, the Scriptures tell us that God created the world with the power of spoken words. Words do matter, regardless of what some folks may want us to believe.
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