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Everybody | Okwukwe Ifeolu-Mayokun Ifediora | TEDxPortHarcourt


there this is

about you about the you who’s here

seated in this room about the you and

those designer clothes and about the UN

scuffed shoes I would like to introduce

you to yourself that’s all I plan to do

now don’t roll your eyes yet whore girl

what does she know about me for one I

know you’re a human being obviously and

I know that every being has a body see I

know these things from stuff I was

taught in elementary and now I know even

more because I’ve been to the University

so I know things be proud mommy and

daddy

I see we all like to say everybody is

special but we don’t treats everybody

like it everybody’s beautiful

everybody’s probably got some good but

is everybody treats everybody the way

good things should because if you were

given the Ferrari I doubt you would

dance with spiked boots on the hood so

why is it ok to be considered two things

made of metal glass fabric wood but oh

so difficult to treat these bodies just

as good so there’s the body of somebody

whose life rhythm plays discordant notes

strings screeching a symphony of self

torture a needle sharp harmful care

feeding death into veins direct to the

brain an invitation of toxins made

resident and locked in orchestrating the

body’s ruin now see it could be their

bodies or anybody’s they decide is

worthy of poisoning while the efforts of

every antibody is left wasting it’s safe

to say that such folks are anti body

even having met blokes who distorts the

image of manliness the ones who believe

male is synonymous with violence callous

and terrifying who are saying during

work hours when home hours turn panel

beats earn so maybe the Dame’s who

mirror them

the ones whose fists inflict pain

alongside words most cutting but it’s

vilest though when the mistreated bodies

are so little vast and battered has no

to test their mettle their fellows who

make cat calls when they see exposed

bodies and their ladies who would call

starvation diets just to look like

another body so there are some buddies

that folks desire and other buddies that

some admire but when pursuit of the

desirable is the cause of bodies

suffering and if the response to every

admirers desire itself hates and hurtful

lusting of what help are these

affections really I know of professional

bodies that think themselves God and in

deluded arrogance transformed to

negation the Creator is not purported

surgical body builders who’s proven

prowess is in the altar that is

alteration of the perfect sri made to

the brittleness of wafers with as much

usefulness as ripped soiled crumpled

paper celebrated in media glorified as

the glory of Celeste bodies they whose

acts violate bodies in dark minded

extremes akin to terrorists now see

science and technology are gifts

everybody knows that we have been

designed creatively thoughts we birthed

creativity this is fact but for every

positive there is a negative that exists

just like some drug might not be

inherently bad until someone misuses its

value for the body abuse to the body

determined by choice that is far from

now let’s go back to that Ferrari if you

got it washed and polished would that

mean you didn’t love it more like you

valued it enough to show affection and

care so they’ll take a breather it’s but

a contraption amazing and valuable

though but primarily to be ridden in so

then he makes sense that these flashy

vehicles we simply must journey through

life and require some degree of devotion

without becoming something we wind up

worshipping from we were built to last

and in case you haven’t gotten that

message you should have gotten it from

your being here and that tirelessly

beating hearts and some things might

happen to mitigate it’s perfect

functionality but the mere fact that

these bodies keep pressing to stay

running is one progressive shoe that

completely astounds me so if I tell you

you’re beautiful don’t take my word for

it

get assurance from words that have been

before anyone ever existed reason that

if time we’re taking to ensure that

every bone duo got along with a ligament

then there is no way so much time would

have been put in simply to make you

worthless so then refused to make your

worth less my plane the amateurs but

blamed the entertainer’s amateurs who

claim they can’t improve perfection and

allowing yourselves to be victims to

those dedicated to joy destruction

because the originals are often better

than the sequels so thank them for the

offer where they can keep their second

editions were fine really

I’ve come to realize that there’s only

room enough for me within this skin and

subsequently when I’m given a commitment

representing shiny ring it’ll expand for

you I don’t know triplets or twins but

the point is there’s only so much wrong

and somebody might disagree but I think

it’s best that everybody starts to dance

to a certain tune the tune of truth

dance in it until you’re cloaked in it

let it cover your birthday suit so the

next time you’re looking through a

mirror you see that you really are

suitable for greater things that

ruffling your smile encourages you to

walk like novo royalty let everybody

share its owner calling and let it

listen that those ears block out the

noise making so the truth can settle in

so the next time we’re talking about

somebody check that it isn’t noise

you’re making when next year introduce

to fellow artistic mastery treat him or

her with a respect allotted to

invaluable beings and so the beams

within these bodies we all see please

listening attentively

nobody is beneath anybody therefore no

body should be treated with cruelly

careless insensitivity

even if everybody chose to be a busybody

that does nothing but spread negative

energy in a body that our words and our

actions be the difference that embodies the good in humanity

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