This is an old video, but quite literally I think about it at lest once a week.
As a social experiment, a photographer took a picture of subjects, and then told them she was taking pictures of things she found beautiful.
The transformation is incredible. In the video you witness them all light up.
It makes me realise just how powerful words really are, both in manifesting our own reality, but also how they impact others.
This video inspired me to write a poem. I wanted to highlight the power of words in crafting the future:
"by complementing the future
she crafted the present
her words revealing a truth
others couldn’t yet see
not for lack of trying
but because she hadn’t yet spoken
the truth was merely a dream
waiting for her to birth it into reality
now here, its eternal nature is manifest
the future, now present, informs the past
and thus her words were true before she ever spoke them"