I have no clue what your parents, siblings, friends, preachers, teachers, schools, and universities told you about you as I wasn’t there together with you.

I also didn’t attend school together with you. But if my experience is anything to go by, your parents, siblings, friends, preachers, teachers, schools, internet, smartphones, and AI didn’t and still don’t tell you that you is a word.

So the time is long overdue to let you in on the truth.

• You is a word. You couldn’t be anything else if it tried. And as you can clearly see, it’s not even trying. The ones trying — hard as we can — are we, the word-users.
• A word by any other word…able, actual, anecdote, answer, artifact, belief, bible, break, change, chat, comma, communicate, concept, conspire, consult, context, contrast, contranym, convention, converse, conversation, correspond, co-respond, data, dictionary, discussion, dream. encyclopedia, epic, fables, fake, frame, god, gossip, grammar, grammatic, grapheme, graphic, high, history, hyphen, I (capitalized 750 years ago to mark it as a word), information, intelligence, internet, isolation, jargon, key, knowledge, label, language, legend, letter, lie, life, linguistic, literally, me, meme, meaning, metaphor, morpheme, name, narrative, news, normal, note, objective, ortho, para, parable, paragraph, parser, period, phoneme, phonologic, phrase, play, practic, private, public, secondary, sequence, speech, spoken, question, quote, really, reality, report, response, saga, school, sentence, silence, stimulus, sound, statement, story, symbol, synonym, talk, testament, text, theory, theoretic, thesaurus, thing, think, thought, truth, understand, unique, universe, university, uttered, value, verb, verse, vocabulary, wisdom, wise, wordless, work, world, worm, worry, worth, write, you, and yarn, to name a few…is a word.
• Everything you have a word for is a word.
• Everything you know is a word.
• You is no exception. If everything you know wasn’t a word, how would you know you? Worth reading again.
• Words are how you aim at what you’re looking for. If not for words, how would you know (what you’re looking for)?
• “In the beginning is the word.” – Word-masters
• “What a word is, a sentence cannot say.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein
• “Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible.” – Patrick Rothfuss
• Call words a dream doesn’t change anything.
• When you change how you see words, both you and the world change.
• If you haven’t thought of you as word before, you’ve got your work cut out for you. When you don’t know what you describes — it describes what you are, do, and have — you don’t know you.
• If you don’t know you, other word-users are more than happy to know you for you.
• Other word-users being more than happy to know you for you happens as you read this sentence.
• You control words or words control you. There is no in-between.

TAKEAWAY

When you ignore what words do to and for you, then you also ignore what words do to and for others.

To realise what words do, you must figure out how to clear space for getting out of your way, for words are a prison, but even a prison becomes a home when you have the key (more about this in some of my previous posts here at LinkedIn).

Every word-user deserves a break from the prison of words from time to time.

Lucky you if you know where to find the space from time to time.

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