A beacon of change...

By Vichara

When you’re alone and you think no one notices the changes happening to you, someone does. When you’re alone and you think no one sees when you are happy, someone does. When you’re alone and you think no one feels your anxiety and heartache, someone does. When you’re alone and you think no one wants to be with you, someone does. Of course that someone is you because any shift in your physical or mental being is first acknowledged by yourself. Here is the seed. Nurture it, honor this because these are the essential elements of change that not only affect your immediate surroundings but also in the respect of these, radiate out and change the world around you. Acknowledge the beacon that you are, shine and change the world.

innocuous • \ih-NAH-kyuh-wus\ • adjective
1 : producing no injury : harmless
2 : not likely to give offense or to arouse strong feelings or hostility : inoffensive, insipid

Example Sentence:
Bella was surprised when her seemingly innocuous remark enraged her classmates.

Did you know?
"Innocuous" has harmful roots -- it comes to us from the Latin adjective "innocuus," which was formed by combining the negative prefix "in-" with a form of the verb "nocēre," meaning "to harm" or "to hurt." In addition, "nocēre" is related to the truly "harmful" words "noxious," "nocent," and even "nocuous." "Innocent" is from "nocēre" as well, although like "innocuous" it has the "in-" prefix negating the hurtful possibilities. "Innocuous" first appeared in print in 1598 with the clearly Latin-derived meaning "harmless or causing no injury" (as in "an innocuous gas"). The second sense is a metaphorical extension of the idea of injury, used to indicate that someone or something does not cause hurt feelings, or even strong feelings ("an innocuous book" or "innocuous issues," for example).