KARIFEST DUCHESS SPEAKS: Be A VOICE, Not An ECHO 

An ECHO is a sound created and can be created in different ways just like a voice makes a sound in different forms. But there’s a difference. What’s the difference you may ask? Many differences exist between a sound made through voicing and an echo made from an instrument, depending on perspectives, but our focus here is on the impact and effect of the sounds made, either through an echo or with the voice directly.

As an illustration, bring an empty drum and hit it very strongly, or even with less effort, it produces a bang as noise, it could be deafening, depending on the force applied. Now open your mouth and make a sound so loud that people around can hear you very loud and clear. Which sounds louder? The sound made by your voice however you scream loud or that bang created by hitting an empty drum?

Now let’s talk about the purposes for which the sounds were produced. What’s the intention behind the sounds created? For immediate or lingering effect? Or for impact and purpose? Or just for the sake of creating a sound that people can listen to? Let the intention(s) determine how loud the sound should be and the impact it should create. When you open your mouth to speak, what’s your intention, purpose, and achievement? Do you want to be heard or do you want to create value? Let your purpose be the determining factor for how loud your sound should be. Wisdom is more profitable.

When you open your mouth to speak or when you make a sound, what’s the value of such a sound? Can it be termed an echo or the voice of someone speaking? Your sound creates value when you have a voice, but when your sound(s) translates only to an echo with no visible or recognizable meaning deduced from such sound, it depicts a no-value sound. So, strive to have a voice that creates great value, not an echo that has just an immediate bang with a lingering sound without meaning, which amounts to nothing, but just a lingering sound.

Today, everyone is talking and wants to be heard, especially on social media where everyone thinks they have a voice. Ask yourself: What’s the value of my voice? How loud the sound you make sounds do not determine the value of your sound, but the impact your sound creates, goes a very long way in determining whether you are making an echo or voicing out value. Yes, an echo can have a bang due to its loudness and lingering sound, but with what effect, value and impact? Can it be described as deafening, soothing, or with a positive-impact effect?

Be that person of value and impact today with your voice, so, just don’t be an echo that fades with the sound after lingering, yet without any meaning, however, the sound lingers, rather, choose to be a voice that sends out thought vibrations with valuable impact.

My message? You can talk all day long and repeat yourself over and over again and still not create any value. Just don’t be an echo that lingers as a sound, be a voice that creates impact. (Emphasized). You can achieve this by making sense when you talk, by making your words count for VALUE and not for noise pollution, and by being genuinely sincere, not by impressing anyone or trying to impress for favours with repeated falsehoods(echo), just to be accepted by a particular group, a person, or set of individuals for yours, or to their advantage.

Whether to be a voice or an echo, the choice is yours today. Either way, choose to be different and make a difference in your world.

An echo or a voice, which are you?

Create a good day.

Karifest Duchess Onyekaah

IYANGA ANIOMA

Advocate+Entrepreneur+Humanitarian+Communication Philosopher.

20Th August 2022.

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