S5 Ep. 300 Tell Stories From The High Ground

SPEAKER_00: Alright guys. How do I start today's episode? Well, I will begin it by saying good morning, good afternoon, good evening, and good everything. Yes, the hills are alive with sound of music. You understand what that means? For those of us who have seen the movie Sound of Music growing up, when Maria was, you know, all around the place. She went to the hillside and the sound was amazing, and she was singing and all of that. But well, actually, that's not why. That's not my story for today. My story for today is heights. Heights, yes. I've always been fascinated, you know, with heights. You see, some of us are afraid of heights. But everybody wants to go higher in life somehow. So always fascinating, always fascinating. So for your information, uh I'm not alone, you know, on this hill. So I'm trying to work with everything around me. Storytelling, yes, that's what I want to talk about. Telling stories from height. Now, I love storytelling, and I know you know that each time we uh come around and what have you, we tell stories. And like I always say, when you bring any subject matter into the frame of storytelling, everybody understands that there's one aspect of storytelling that blows my mind. And and I take a cue from the Marvel Universe. You know, when you watch Marvel movies, the way they tell stories, they tell stories from heights. You know, there's this height they tell the story from, and this height they tell the story from the peaks or peaks, it takes its root from cosmic realities. Yep, cosmic realities, and they they tend to own it, and the way they tell the story, they make you so so believe it. Believe it that you just like this is how it is. By bringing it back home in the African setting, uh, I see that our storytelling does not come from heights. We tell stories like uh uh carelessly, if I must use that word, we just tell, you know, tell the story. There's no origin, as it were, there's no coordinate, there's no cosmic reality, you know. And you you kind of ask yourself, okay, how or why do we tell stories like this? This is my opinion. We tell stories like this because we don't believe in ourselves. Uh, we don't believe in ourselves. We tell stories the way we tell stories because we feel we are second. That's how we tell stories. But when you tell a story from an original point of view, you own it. You don't just own it, you weave yourself into it, you tell the reality. So the other day I was discussing with my children, you know, because we look, we do a lot of uh talking, we do a lot of talking. I am my kids, you know, making references and all of that. And I asked them this question that do you think we have an Afrocosmic reality? And I said, Daddy, there you go again. What is Afrocosmic reality? You know, just like when you watch one of those uh transformer movies, you know, directed by Michael Bay, you now see where they weave in all of their reality, the Western reality into the story and making it look like the transformers are part of this reality. They are from this planet or universe that is cosmic in nature, and they come in to our world to help us and all of that. And we all believe it, and you know, we you know we go with that. So when I made that analysis, they were like, okay, daddy, you have a point there. So is it possible for us to see that our story has a cosmic reality? There is an Afrocosmic reality. Yes, an Afro-cosmic reality, a story that originates and emanates from Africa, a story that speaks to who we are, how we do things, not as if we are savages, no. But we also own a piece of this universe. We own a piece of this universe. So when you tell stories from that perspective, you come to see how things are really indeed different. Well, that is what I came to do on the show today. Telling stories from heights. What heights? Reality, cosmic reality. We are part of this universe, this multiverse, if you want to call it, this world, and we also have this life that flows in us, God-given life. And listen, we should tell our stories without any apologies. That is, tell it, own it, be it, and shape our world with our story. You know, sometimes when we dwell so much on this story, this Afrocosmic, I mean, Western stories. It gives us a narrative that pushes us into a different sphere. And it now makes it look like we're second class. We're not second class, we're different, we're unique, we are amazing beings found on a planet, given a location, so we should own it. Yeah, we should, and tell our stories the way it ought to be told, become part of the general, or you call it that global story, the African story. Yeah. Well, I don't intend to keep us, you know, for long on this episode, but it's just for us to think about it, for us to like, you know, process it, for us to dwell on it. You see that height? Don't be afraid of it. Stand on that height, tell your story. Tell your story as it is within you. Tell your story. Let the world hear you. Let the world gleam from your story and let your story change the world for good because you are different, you are unique. Yep. All right then. You know how we always do it. I'm enjoying myself on this. Yes, I'm enjoying myself on this high. This height I'm standing on. I'm enjoying myself. I mean, so well, I fail to come and you know, share some of this with you. Do I leave you now? Yes, I will. But you know how we say it on the show. This is the space where we come in to lean on one another's experience to forge a positive path. That is what the Word Cafe is all about. Yes. 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