Words are great, they are infinite. You can learn new ones every day, you can learn new languages and talk to people. You can play with them and make people laugh with. You can put them together and sometimes it become beautiful or philosophical sentences. Some of them will stay in your mind forever, will give a rhythm to your daily life. Some are difficult to remember or to pronounce ; some are soft, cute, funny, some other can be hard, sad, hurtful. With words you can be connected to people, luckily even the ones from the other part of the world. And most important, with words, in every languages, you can say « I love you ».
I love writing, I can express my feelings and ideas, sometimes boiling in my head. You can read them or ignore them, it doesn’t matter, this words just needed to go out of my mind, to taste to freedom, to travel and settle down for a while on this paper.
Today, my words tell a story, the story of the day where I choose the word « action ». I decided to change « I will be » , « I want to do » for « I’m » and « I’m doing ». It’s not easy to know what we want to do – and it’s probably why some times we are stuck in an endless talk – but I had a tiny idea : I wanted to help. « Help » is a good word and can be good act in many ways. It can be when I’m listening to you when you are sad or grumpy my friend ; it can be when I’m changing my own behaviors to respect myself or the others or it can simply be when I’m smiling to you, stranger in the street. The only law with « help » is that you have to give without expectation to have it back and it’s not that difficult! Helping is not -like we can say in french- « a drop in the ocean » because once you are starting to walk on this path, you are part of this path, you are completing this path. It’s not a drop in the ocean, it is the ocean. The simplest act of help fill your heart of knowledge. I know. I know that helping is not useless, even if it’s just a smile or just a word.
I so started my journey, my traveling-helping project. Life brought me here, in Nepal ; here in Letang where I’m giving some of my time for this organization who bring art and creativity to the children in the schools. Here I learnt many new words and one of the first ones have been « rangi-changi » : « colorful » because we believe that « Where there is color, there is hope », and because it express more than only « colors », it express « happiness », « fun » and « smile » too. We repeat this words every day at school and it was the perfect ones to describe the people that I love, the people that I meet, the people who give to this world and it’s the reason why it’s my personal project’s name.
Later on, I read again my last article. I wrote it to say « I love you »-(words as much important to perform that to say) – to my friends, to the people, to the world. Life is surprising and reading again this article, I found those words : « with all our colors we will do a beautiful painting » then I knew at this exact time that « Rangi-Changi » was meant to be. I was meant to be here, with WatersFromHeaven, in Letang to start this new journey.
Yesterday at school the kids were happy, playing, painting, drawing, laughing and shouting all together… « Rangi-Changi ». « Rangi-changi » are my words, are who I’m. And you? Who are you?