Words are illusive inherently. Hearing to words without
context is such an ordinary act that it’s alarming. Words are something that we humans have taken for
granted from centuries. Words are nothing else but tools and just as one needs
to learn how to use a tool similarly we all need to learn how to use words as
well.
Words are tools to commune and it’s exactly what we miss
every time we open our mouth and or read some text. We haven’t learned how to
commune through words at all. It’s like we are still at a very nascent stage
when it’s comes to communing through words. Something similar to when a five
years kid say that “I am done learning alphabets so I am a doctor of literature
now,” its plain stupid and its implication are way too dangerous, try to
foresee it by helping your imagination. Here, let me help you out by two exercises
given below. Please be honest while performing these or else you might miss
their impact.
Exercise 1:
Pay attention next time when you are
watching News or a television series or even a movie. Try to see the camera men’s
behind the screen and what are they trying to do, see how are they moving
around, try to see the makeup artists and what are they seeing, visualize the sound
recorders and see the ways in which they are changing the background music every
now and then, picture those animations guys and see how are they all trying to grab
your attention (just like grabbing someone by neck!!) in shuttle-st way possible.
Exercise 2:
Listen to your most favorite song.
Try to imagine yourself been the writer of that song. Try to visualize how
different the composition of those words can be from a writer’s perspective compared
to the actual music director’s perspective. Try to imagine what the writer was
thinking when writing those words. Now see it from a singer’s perspective,
followed by the musicians, the sound recorders and lastly the choreographers.
See how entirely different each of these entities reads the same sets of words.
Try to see how peoples are manipulating you, trying to
convince you, how they are brainwashing you, see your own brain getting
brainwashed attentively. It’s hard to do so, I understand but it’s equally
shocking and eye opening when you truly see this reality as it actually is. Now
you might think that by doing so you will start to enjoy things less but the
truth is that you will enjoy it even more. Reality and truth are as sweet as
nectar it’s just getting rid of the bees surrounding it initially, that is
hard.
Almost all fights verbal or physical, fights within friends,
families, communities, countries or governments are directly related to the lack
of understanding of the context by the entities involved.
Let’s take an easy example to better understand the cruel
importance of context. “I would kill
myself” this sentence is marvelous for proving just that.
Scenario 1: Imagine a guy let’s name him Adam, is madly in
love with a girl and is confronting with his family saying “I would kill myself”
if they don’t agree?
Scenario 2: Now imagine Adam is practicing for a stage show
and is shouting in front of his colleagues “I would kill myself” as one of his
given dialogue.
Scenario 3: Now imagine Adam is a five year kid, listening
to some show on T.V. and repeating what he heard which in this case is obviously
“I would kill myself”
Scenario 4: Now imagine Adam is a college kid cracking a
joke as in “if professor Ram keeps on teaching mathematics anymore, I would kill
myself”
Scenario 5: Now imagine Adam is a patient admitted in a
mental asylum ruthlessly shaking his head and repeating 'I would kill myself’ followed
by a burst of laughter when he out of breathe.
Scenario 6: Now imagine Adam is a die hard devotee and is telling
his guru “before the cops arrest you, I would take all the blames on my name
and then I would kill myself”
Now if I bring this up in a conversation like “have you
heard what Adam said, he said he would kill himself” it means different things
depending which context you relate it to, isn't?
So you see what I mean. We should stop and think twice before
interpreting some text and or hearing to some words or else the probability of
misunderstanding is painstakingly high. Now the solution to such a wide spread
shuttle ignorance within us human beings might seems hard but it’s actually not.
And the solution is “to pay unbiased attention while listening”. Please note
that listening is quite different then hearing. In fact hearing is just 40% of the
whole listening process, the rest of 60% is paying attention to quite your mind
and let those words sink in and then react impartially.
So the most ideal way
to commune is to take a 20 sec. pause every time a speaker finishes saying a
sentence and then go on. To implement this is much harder initially as it’s
like swimming against the stream but once you get the grip of it you will feel
blissful and from my personal experience meditation might serve helpful in
accomplishing just this, so give it a try per your convenience.
Definition of Commune: Share one's
intimate thoughts or feelings with (someone or something)
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