I write & publish wordexplosion once a week, every Tuesday, covering topics as diverse and colorful as the words you use. The best time to read it is now. After all, you don’t have time to rush today, do you?
If you read wordexplosion regularly, you know a word by any other word is a word, you is no exception, and hopefully also more. In last week’s wordexplosion #53, we looked at YOU DO FORGIVE. In today’s #54, let’s explore..
…what you also do when your health, energy and time allow.
You DO GIVE
IN THE WORDY WORLD
As you GIVE, I guess you might want to know what it is.
Give is a word.
Zero surprise there because give is a word like everything else you know.
The proof is in the pudding: Were it not a word, how would you know it?
Something you must learn
While you must learn to give, the ability to give is inborn in you.
The easy way to learn to give is from your parents. If not, you can learn it from other word-users, but first you must find them.
The easiest to give is to give thanks.
You can give thanks for waking up which is a privilege the dead word-users no longer enjoy. Of course, that’s only if you don’t believe the best you can do is complain when you’re not asleep.
The worst you can do is give up.
Among the things you cannot do is give away what you don’t have.
The best you can do to ensure this doesn’t happen is be a go-giver instead of a go-getter.
Give thanks
To celebrate connections between word-users from different backgrounds and cultures, there is a special day called Thanksgiving.
This special day is celebrated in different countries on different days. I think that’s a shame because I’m in favour of elevating Thanksgiving to a worldwide event, not just once a day, but throughout the year.
This will ensure that once you learn to give thanks, you’re ready forever and a day.
Despite the fact I can’t afford his weekly “10 things worth sharing”, I’m a gigantic fan of Austin Kleon. So let me share with you what Austin Kleon shared among this week’s 10 “things worth sharing”:
For a free download of Austin Kleon’s complete GRATITUDE ZINE Gratitude Zine.
To sign up for his weekly “10 things worth sharing” newsletter.
Give thanks, part 2
By a making a contribution, successful word-users are givers.
The more you give, the more comes your way. But that’s not why you do it.
Expect not that your giving will be returned or that your kingdom will come. Giving is its own reward.
You might have heard of the “The Giving Pledge” where some of the world’s 250 wealthy word-users have pledged to give their money away to philanthropic causes. Among them, some say it’s the most satisfying thing they’ve done.
One too many times
You may have heard “Don’t give up” one too many times — from artists, athletes, entrepreneurs, and solopreneurs. But they’re right. Not give up is part and parcel of every major success.
Here is how:
- Don’t give up when the rewards are uncertain.
- Don’t give up when the going gets though.
- Don’t give up when you feel alone.
- Don’t give up when you don’t feel like it.
- Don’t give up when no one is watching.
- Don’t give up when giving up seems like the right thing to do.
- Don’t give up is even better when others also don’t give up because of you.
Giving is the new getting.
IN THE WORDLESS WORLD
In the wordless world, rivers don’t drink their own water. Trees don’t eat their own fruit. Flowers don’t spray their fragrance on themselves. The sun doesn’t shine on itself.
Give like the wordless do.
That said, the word-users usually mistake the wordless world for nature.
But the wordless sun, energy, fire, air, earth, water, atoms, cells, plants, mountains, valleys, oceans, stars, moons and wordless animals don’t give for the self-evident reason that nature is void of words.
Yet everything in the wordless world is accomplished.
“All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.” – Richard Brautigan
WORD-USE
Though only a few word users remember it, we are born like all of Earth’s children — wordless.
We learn words — from parents, siblings, friends, preachers, teachers, and smartphones — only between the ages of 1 and 6 (average). After that, words are what we aim for and respond to.
Give is no exception.
Call words a dream doesn’t change anything.
ELECTRIC QUOTE
“You cannot give happiness without having it. That’s how you acquire it.” – Voltaire
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