Joshua I. Umahi

Everyone has a story; a particularity about their journey that makes them, them. Mine is neither simple, nor complex. To keep it short, I have experienced unique circumstances and adversities throughout my life to thank for shaping & molding me into the man I've become today.

 

There's a certain power that comes with consistently adapting and overcoming; a power we discover in ourselves in doing so, and that power deserves to be felt and owned by everyone. Within my personal process of adaptation, from a kid exiting high school with little idea of what I wanted my career path to look like, to becoming an on-and off, part-time student majoring in trial-and-error: I eventually discovered my passion: in the fields of Media Communications and Journalism. There is a story attached to everyone & everything -- and those stories need to be told as they are the backbone of our society and have been for thousands upon thousands of years.

 

With that being said, I frankly don't know where I would be today if not for creativity. Life is stressful; that's obvious and overstated. Creativity offers a balance, a breath-of-fresh-air type of freedom from the monotony of everyday life. The Recess Bell was created to inspire our collective creative, just as was routine when that bell would ring in the middle of the school day back in childhood, no matter where your individual interests lied.

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I wish to do nothing else with this platform but to inspire you to create. To create anything and everything your heart desires. To create the world that you wish to live in.

 

That is my mission.