#listentothewhishpers #life #oprahwinfrey

Have you ever had a moment where the hair on your back has stood up? Have you ever felt a goose bump in a particular situation? If you have ever experienced any of these, brace yourself this means that ‘LIFE IS TALKING TO YOU’. Life always, always talks to you, it may be a whisper or a goose bump, but it always has a way to convey or even alert you to foresee the dangers lying ahead. You just need to hear the whispers.

Let me tell you a story that will prove, that our life truly communicates with us. There was a girl in the rural town of Kosciusko, Mississippi. She was born at the time where black people were considered as the second-class citizen, she grew up in the era where lynching of black people was totally normal and even legal. All her life she saw her mother, her grandmother working as house maids to the white folks. Her grandma always used to tell her while doing the dishes or washing clothes “Girl, you better watch me now, one day you gotta learn to do this by yourself”. But at the tender age of 6 she felt a strong voice that told her” No you won’t”.

She had the most tumultuous childhood. She was raped at the age of 9, she was pregnant at the age of 14, suffered a miscarriage and was practically homeless all her adolescence, still the voice inside her said “You are going to be fine”.

The little girl grew up to be a fine young woman who happen to be a relatively successful TV show host. One day she saw a review of the book ‘The Colour Purple’ by Alice walker. She was so impressed by the book that she bought every single copy of that book from the bookstore and gave it to all her colleagues, all the random people she met in the park urging them to read the book. She was so obsessed by the book that there was nothing else she could think of.
One day she came to know that ‘The’ Steven Spielberg is going to make a movie on the book “Colour purple”. The voice inside her immediately said ‘You are going to be a part of that movie’. She believed in that voice and acted, literally acted as if she has got the part already, she used to say to people with full conviction that she is in the movie. As life communicated to her, she did receive a call from a casting agent for a part in a movie call ‘MOON SONG’. She was bewildered she asked the agent “Are you sure the movie’s name is MOON SONG and not Colour Purple”. The agent affirmatively said that the movie’s name is MOON SONG. She was a little confused, yet she fully surrendered to the whisper of life and went to the audition as she read the script, she immediately knew that the movie is not MOON SONG, it is the COLOR PURPLE and she was auditioning for a major part called SOPHIA who is married to a man called HARPO which in reverse is her name. After weeks of auditioning she called up the casting agent and he said, “Don’t call me again, you are not a real actress”.

She was so heart broken that she went to a weight reduction centre because she thought,that she lost the part because she was FAT. She was running on the tracks on a rainy morning crying and praying to good lord to help her letting go the passion of staring in the movie ‘THE COLOUR PURPLE’. She was singing,

“I surrender all
I surrender all
All to Thee my blessed Savior
I surrender all”

She finally felt that she has the courage to letting go the obsession she carried about the movie. The next moment she gets a call from Mr. Spielberg, informing her that she has got a part in the movie.

You must have figured out until now that the little girl who turned out to be a movie star and later became the first African American woman billionaire is none other than ‘OPRAH WINFREY’.

Oprah became Oprah, because from an early age she understood and followed her inner voice. Your inner voice always, always speaks to you. The whisper you have, always try to show you the path lying ahead. You just need to listen to it, acknowledge it and have faith in it.

The whispers of your life are trying to tell you something, listen. Just listen.

-Aneeshya Monteiro