Speaking and talking: Speak! The World Listens. By Francis Okpaleke.
Speak! The World Listens There is a salient dichotomy between speaking and talking. Speaking for , is uttering or consistently confessing a matter from a place of understanding or consciousness. It transcends the psycho-cognitive process of talking which is natural and sacrosanct to all mortals. To speak, is to create a kind of kinetic energy that reverberates deep into the tympanic receptors of the ‘ears’ of the world. They say, ‘the world has ears’, I say ‘the world listens when we speak and not talk’ As I write this, one event in my life encapsulate the imperative of speaking. I have always nurtured the idea of travelling to the ends of the world but the means to accomplish this was far beyond me. I silently ‘envied’ those who traveled and was always awe struck when my professors would tell endless tales of their odysseys around the world during lectures. Soon I found myself fascinated by the map of the world and would drift deep in t...