Real Words

Maya Angelou states that, “There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you.”  

That’s easy for someone to say when she has story after story after story to tell, as Dr. Angelou certainly does.  

But for me, my very soul reacts when I read those words with whispers and shouts, “It’s even worse having no story to tell at all!” 

I have always loved to write… 

And I have a hunger to say something to the world that will touch people in a way that other people’s stories have touched me. 

The very real fictional characters of To Kill a Mockingbird have helped form much of my social beliefs. 

The sentiments that ALL are responsible for peace and everyone should be anti-war expressed in Cold Mountain helped me explain my own feelings in the last few years about our present political situations. 

Exodus introduced me to passion, although as I grew older and realized that there are always at least two sides to every story, my views of the content have metamorphed. 

I misunderstood my teachings from Christy, believing I was to be a teacher: Instead, I think I was to take away from it the sense of adventure one can experience in doing her life’s calling. 

Maya Angelou’s series of autobiographical writings and her viewpoints on life’s lessons have inspired me as I have grown older. I count her very much as the mentor of my soul… and I know her only through the words she has written and spoken to the masses. 

Oh, to say and write words that can touch another so deeply! 

And, oh, to have lived a life full of stories that can teach and inspire others! 

To write! 

To share! 

To live life to its fullest!