Interview with Annelise Lords

Kindness, thoughtfulness, love, and all the good things that aid in making humanity better. I hate cruelty, being raised by a mother whose cruelty had no boundaries, I see first hand how destructive hatred and cruelty can be. Most importantly, I learn never to feed them. I am drawn to everyone in pain both animals and humans.

Annelise Lords impresses me a lot from time to time with her articles and poems on humanity and kindness. Every time I read her work I thank myself for being alive and knowing more about her way of thinking. She always ends her articles with “Thanks for reading this piece” and this has changed me a lot as a person.

It’s like someone is so grateful sitting miles away from you because you read their work. It shows the kind of heart she has and the wisdom she is possessed with. I respect her a lot and she is beautiful enough to raise your spirit by adding her two cents. I admire her for being real, honest, positive, honest, and spiritual. It takes an amazing soul to know another amazing soul.

I have got a glimpse of her life by looking at her answers, knowing from where she comes and why she is the way she is. I hope you rejoice reading her about too.

1. Where do you belong to? Is there anything you would like to change about the place you belong to?

I belong to the earth, a beautiful place that humans are destroying. Earth is our only home, and unless you have somewhere else to live, I am begging humanity, STOP DESTROYING OUR ONLY HOME! I would like to change my people’s thinking. I think their thinking is their disability and it keeps them knee-deep in poverty. Poverty prevents humans from doing so many good things. Like preserving The Earth, because many are creating wealth at the expense of the only home we know. Imagine someone destroying your mansion, your garden, or your car, your expensive smartphone, your art collection, or anything of value you hold dear. None of the above has any value if there is no place to put it and enjoy using or seeing it.

2. What sets your soul on fire?

Kindness, thoughtfulness, love, and all the good things that aid in making humanity better. I hate cruelty, being raised by a mother whose cruelty had no boundaries, I see first hand how destructive hatred and cruelty can be. Most importantly, I learn never to feed them. I am drawn to everyone in pain both animals and humans.

3. Which one is your favorite family memory and why?

Every Sunday after dinner we would eat ice-cream, and every week one of us would get to choose the flavor ice-cream we want. Every Sunday for weeks, one of my sisters would choose Grape-nut. When it got to my turn, I choose Rum and raisin. Lol. Today, I don’t like Grape-nut ice-cream, but Sundays have become a family day for me as an adult.

4. Is there anyone in your life you could give your life for? If yes, why?

My husband and children. My husband of more than 30 years, because he drives me crazy and he is difficult to get along with. But his difficulty teaches me patience and understanding of humanity. He has a good heart. A girl wants a guy with a good heart. She can handle the rest of him. My children because I want to save them from all the cruelty in our world. (I know I can’t, but I will try, Lol)

5. Do you pour love into self from time to time?

The best part of humanity comes from the heart. So, if I can’t give myself love, loving others will be a problem for me.

6. How often you observe the people near you?

The secret to getting along with everyone is taking the time to know them. Growing up in the ghettoes in Jamaica my instincts are alive. When I associate or communicate with others, I listen to everything they say, and I also listen to what they don’t say. I can read emotions and actions. The truth is often hidden there. Plus, as a writer, I study personalities, it aids in creating characters for my stories.

7. What do you hope for? Does it change something within you or around you?

A better world, better people, better living. Yes, it changes everything, because if I live by example, then others will learn from me and be the example they want to be.

8. How does it feel like being a woman to you?

Powerful. Women, especially mothers, biologically, or not, possess the power to change the world through their children, using their knowledge, wisdom, discretion, and power of words.

9. What you would like us to remember you for?

My kindness and thoughtfulness.

10. How would you describe your life?

I am a Satisfied customer. God has blessed me with the wisdom to make the right decisions. I am living off decisions I made more than 20 years ago. I have no complaints, but I have lots of gratitude for life, living, wisdom, understanding, patience, and all the good things that fuel my intentions, actions, choices, and decisions.

11. What keeps you on your toes and how do you like to spend your time?

My writing, my family, thinking too much and doing too much. I love to read; I will spend hours reading.

12. When life gives you a lemon what do you make out of it?

No lemonades for me. I make lemon pie, lemon pudding, lemon bread, lemon cake, lemon patty, lemon tart, something to eat not drink. A hungry mind, soul, heart or body, needs food, not a drink.

13. What mystery of life you would like to have an answer for?

Why kindness, thoughtfulness, understanding, and love has no value to some people. How can humanity forget kindness?

14. How were you different five years ago from what you are today?

Well, I am older, that means wiser. Lol. I want more from life now than I did five years ago.

15. What would you like to leave as your legacy? Is there any message you would like to communicate to us?

Being good is not hard for me but staying good is the most difficult thing I had to do in my life. You get more from being good than from being bad. Life will reward you more for being good. Humans will punish you more for being good. Be good to yourself and others. Give what you want. You will not get it back from those that you give, but life will hand it to you on a platter when you need it. There is power in being good, and penalties in being bad. You have a choice!

Annelise Lords is a writer of Fiction and Uplifting Quotes &Antidotes. Get your upliftment, inspiration, and smiles here! [email protected]