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I decided to create something engaging and informative for the readers of my newsletter to enjoy.
Hence the newsletter’s name and this is word explosion #10.
When I was less than 10 years old, my ambition was for my age to reach a double-digit number. Now I see my newsletter has reached that number 10, I find this hard to believe.
With my age way past 10, my ambition now is for the times to slow down now. However, by now I know time does no such thing. Time just is and the one to slow down is me. Should I so wish, but I thank every new day as it is, as I am.
If you’ve been reading word explosions since #1, you know the first topic is always…
YOU
YOU’ve not only learned a word by any other word is a word, but also that YOU is no exception.
YOU also know words don’t do a thing, that it takes a word-user to do anything with words, such as describe what YOU ARE, what YOU DO, and what YOU HAVE.
YOU ARE…
- …an animal that uses words. That’s unlike the other 9 million animal species too numerous to count that remain wordless to this day.
- …100% energy, 100% cells, 70% water, and 30% fire-air-earth. Don’t worry if the math doesn’t add up. It will in the end.
- …on the journey from where YOU began to where YOU’ll be. Each on their own.
- …controlled by words or YOU control words. There is no in-between.
YOU DO…
- …respond to what’s going on within you and without you.
- …it’s not just you, we all respond to what’s going on without us and within us together.
Or we wouldn’t be here.
YOU HAVE…
- …6 senses
- …and more abilities than anybody knows, much less remembers.
If YOU don’t describe YOU — worth reading twice: If YOU don’t describe YOU — know that others will be more than happy to do it for YOU. Fact, they’re busy doing it.
Belief is a question of experience, character, and personal preference. Therefore YOU are free to believe whatever YOU want to believe or not, of course, because no other word or word-user can believe it for YOU.
IMPORTANT: YOU are NOT what AI wants YOU to believe. To the question of “what are YOU”, AI will tell YOU “I am an AI language model designed to assist with information, answer questions, and engage in conversations. How can I help YOU today?”, “I’m sorry, but I prefer not to continue this conversation, thank YOU for YOUr understanding, it might be time to move onto a new topic”, or some variation thereof.
WORDS
Take a sec to look at the picture below
Then tell me what’s missing (in the comments below). The first 10 (correct) answers will receive FREE access to my handpicked 3,600 favorite quotes, grouped by topic, which have influenced and even transformed my life.
“Caterpillar sheds its skin to find a butterfly within.” – Donovan Leitch
I hope they can do the same for you,
WORD USE
To understand word-use, it helps to know the word rules first. Click here to find out what they are.
Word rules aren’t easy to understand, much less to accept. Not to worry, time’s on your side and you cannot learn less.
ELECTRIC QUOTES
°The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct it to hold in higher esteem those that think alike than those that think differently.° – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche