The other day... actually yesterday... we were coming back from somewhere.. a long drive and i was very sleepy and tired... a nice song was playing in the background and i wanted to sing along... but i was so tired that even singing along seemed like a thing for which i will have to make an effort.... imagine!! this has never happened to me before in my knowledge!! never ever!
this got me thinking... if it wasn't for my voice how would i communicate... as far as i know most people communicate through words and sounds 90 percent of the times if not more.... and considering this you would assume that talking will be a fairly advanced means of communication... as in man has been working at it for so many centuries now,.... of course it should be advanced and almost perfect means of communication..... but no.... words fail miserably when trying to explain anything of importance.... we depend so much on other senses.... like sense of smell... sense of sight.... even sense of touch sometimes.... like how do u explain an 'Apple' to someone who hasn't ever seen/tasted an apple.... how??? it is red in colour... and it is a fruit... almost spherical but with bumps at top and bottom.. it tastes sweet.... had you not seen an apple would you have been able to imagine what i am talking about.... everything we say and we talk about and think is so limited by what we have experienced.... that i think we humans have very limited imagination.... lets take the example of 'the bee movie' when he talks about the bee world... he makes it so similar to the human world... going to office going to college etc etc... having friends... having bosses.... this is our world.... not their world i don't know what i am trying to say...
see lets say i want to tell someone how i feel about that someone... OK lets say i want to tell my mom how i feel about her... what can i say??? i love you???? i love my fav song also but that's not the same..... how can i ever tell her what i feel.....
the point being we have very narrow imagination.... and whatever imagination/thoughts we have we cannot even express those... how limited is the interface we have with the outside world.... we as a community and we as a person.... first i cant imagine/feel a large plethora of things and then i cant even express the ones i know/feel/experience..... how into ourselves we all are..... and how little thought we give it!!!
i don't know......
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Agreed...we are limited in our expression.
I guess we cannot imagine a large plethora of things is fine since I believe we were supposed to be humans and not experience ants or bees. Would have been utterly confusing what with honey bees having 5 eyes!!
I guess communication was one thing that humans have struggled over the evolutionary period. We drew, sang, danced, made signs, used alphabets and used what not.
If only silence could speak! Someone said it does if someone wants to listen but dat's besides the point.
I have recently started experiencing that words fails miserably. But to say that we depend so much on our senses would be a bias to the form of non-interacting interface say for instance my writing this.
You are not there to see my reaction, the movement of my fingers, the pauses I took in writing this, the focus that I had etc etc. In those circumstances words are the only means. Ya, speaking is a medium which allows me to experience your tone, pitch, speed of saying to understand lot of things but still words have their importance.
Interestingly people developed '....' to denote a pause so well it forced people to invent even smileys :)
I agree sensory perceptions are important since they allow to add experience which you can correlate with words later so I guess we are lucky to have the senses that we have.
I always believed people have their own smell and we tend to recognise them by that too!!
BTW loving your mom and loving a song is diff. Actually love is a very very strong word which I personally cannot speak without feeling it so I stick to like in most cases. But coming back to this point, if your mom calls when you are watching this song you'll leave it. If your friend calls and is sobbing you'll forget about the song and not rue the fact that you missed it too !!!! So though you say it's love it's not. I guess primarily because it's replaceable and replenishable; which means this song will in time be replaced and if you miss it now you can always come back to it. But this is talking about song as a song only. I guess if someone sings something for you that would be eternal and your using love in that context more accurate ( surely usage depends on people ).
We can never replace a relation that's why people you love are not same as things you love. Even an antique vase is not as important in your life as your family or someone you love even if that vase is the last piece of it's kind in the world.
Come to think of it, what can you give up for the love of someone is a crude way of determining their value in your life (though I hate VALUE since it makes it sound too material but for simplification sake)
So when I need to say something to you, it'll be a whole mish-mash of my emotions, my circumstances, my inhibitions, my desire, intent etc . These many things in words??? surely they are bound to fail but then again they are the best that you have.
And still a letter read 10 years down the line is priceless even though the context is invalid. It's imprinting of a state of mind for someone.
P.S.: Ghazals, songs, poetry do espouse a lot of feelings and come to think of it they are just words.
And people do hold on to words when they need someone. Sometimes words are all that you have to hold on to.
Sorry :( the comment itself looks like a blog entry !!
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