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A Great Story to Tell

Hello you bloggers out there, it’s been some time since I last blogged and  I have neglected this Blog. To be exact, it almost 7 months.
You see all these time, I have been concentrating on doing couple of other things that hopefully, will provide for me when I retire from full time work.  I must say that while I have really put in a lot of effort,  the results are still far from expectations, but I still hold the firm belief that my effort will bear fruits one day and still not giving up. But I tell myself that I must put back effort into writing this Blog which I have grown to like, just like writing the stuff  that I go through in life and inspire by those feedbacks and comments that I have been receiving.  I know many of you will share the same feeling, which is why I hope that by writing, it can inspire others and give them some shining light when things look bleak and lose.  Do Not give up, for when one gives up,  one is already defeated by his own heart and will. So how can the battle be won without even fighting.

So this time, my title is about telling a story.  I think we all have our own story to tell, what we go through in life, our triumphs,  jubilations as well as the hardships and sufferings.  And many of us wanted to tell the world.   But how, and to how?
That is why we have many people writing their own or have others write their bibliographies, each serving its very own purpose.  Today, we have this internet, the web and the blogs available, and more importantly, these are all free.
I suppose the reason to start up this  Blog, and start writing the articles and the nature of the content, it is my own way of telling my story, in pieces each time focusing on different aspects.  After-all, I am not a professional writer,  I am just an ordinary folk  who just this month retired prematurely from active work after a working life of 30 plus years.
Suddenly,  life seems so short as I enter the golden age. Life is so fluid, fragile and whatever story and aspect I have and want to tell, it is  so temporal and short-lived.  Apart from those well-knowns  and influential, when we are gone, who would know who and what we are?

This time, I want to share with you the amazing talent of this lady, Kseniya.
Watch this amazing lady - winner of the Ukraine talent show!

There are several different performances of Kseniya’s available on youtube. What Kseniya does is haunting and beautiful, especially when you understand the context. Look at the reaction the crowd has. They are deeply moved.

What she depicts is love and war, set amidst the turmoil of The Great Patriotic War, or as we call it in America , WWII. Ukraine was probably the area most devastated in the war, even more than Germany . It was a conflict that saw nearly one in four Ukrainians killed. A population of almost 42 million lost between 8 and 11 million people, depending on which estimate one references. Ukraine represented almost 20 percent of all the causalities suffered during WWII. And that was after Stalin had killed millions during the manufactured famines before the war. It to this day touches every Ukrainian. That’s the context of war memory that Kseniya reaches out to. The sand art of Kseniya is set to music that reflects the tone of what she is trying to project, and the combined effect works very well.

Sand animators use simple grains of sand to tell a story, in a way many people haven’t seen before. What Kseniya Seminova does in a few short minutes is all the more memorable because it is so fleeting.
Once she is finished, the grains of sand go back into containers and the art is swept away.

Check out her performance, and you might just become a fan of the art of sand animation too!
So if we have a story to tell, go ahead and tell it before it is too late.  In the course of our lives over so many years, I am sure you have created your own greatness and history, moment by moment.  No one can erase and take these away from you.  And I am sure there is a lot to tell, so tell them in pieces, to the very people that matters, in the way that you know best.
Kseniya has mastered her way to tell her story and what goes on in her mind in an unusual way,  so ask yourself how you would like to tell your story to those that matters to you right now when you are still able to.   And not to regret it later in life.

Posted by
Ivan