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When I Grow Up I Want to be…

By October 19, 2022 171 Comments
When I grow up I want to be

I wish this story started at the beginning like every child’s dream with the cliché phrase as its precedent, “when I grow up I want to be…”

Like every dream fostered by a close family member as a role model, the drive to do good and change the world…

A journey to create pride and uphold a long-withstanding family legacy, raising the bar so high it floats above the fleeting clouds…

Though like a drunkard I stumbled and fell upon my nirvana…

A jumble of letters, sounds, words and a creative mind that can concort anything from thin air and with just a few scribbles turn it into anything…

Pain, love, anguish, desire all built by the mind and fitted into the four corner pages squeezed into the thin lines to create emotion, to make people feel…

The small peephole that shines the light through the nooks and crannies of the soul…

In the beginning, I thought I wanted to save the world, treat sick people, defend those crippled by injustices, shelter the homeless and lock away the unjust …

That is before I discovered the sharpest weapon wielded at the tip of the pen, the illuminator of the soul body and mind…

Words heal…

words encourage…

words love…

and that is the greatest gift I could give mankind…

I wish this story started at the beginning where I would have learned that words were all I needed to change my little piece of the world…

                                                                                                        -Maria Oloo

 

 

 

Maria Oloo is an outstanding Kenyan writer, journalist and blogger. She dabbles in the arts of creative writing and a little poetry every once in a while.  Maria is a soulful writer that aims to capture the raw truth in every man’s soul with themes encompassing those difficult conversations as demonstrated on her blogs @ Marias Truth where she undertakes the haughty task of uncovering truths and making a conversation based on them. You can find her on Instagram @_.marriaa_h or @marias_truth. This young writer is hopeful that someday her words will impart and influence a more extensive audience and in its own small way change the world.

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