Recently had to startle into a random trip to my hometown- which is also the best place on earth I know.
Its probably the only place where I have actually grew-up- not literally, but in terms of understanding things better - everything that is not me and myself.
Those several traces of delight-joy-happiness-sorrow-anger-confusion-disgust and the endless list of emotions could be felt in this one place altogether. So every-time on my visit here- I have those sudden realization moments filled with enlightenment. For me its one of those places where on the emotions graph chart several HIGHS and LOWS are noticed. All that is needed or can be done at best is experiencing them all in complete contentment of those emotions.
Oh well! before I get too sentimental and distracted about this magical land which I call mine by all means and methods- will share the sudden realization moment this time around on my trip here-- the art of using language.
There is a peculiarity utilized here in addressing everyone or expressing what you mean to say. One such peculiarity is that you say what you want to say but not directly (Like in hindi its said- ghuma fhira ke kehna). At first I use to be perplexed by the such a methodology but then understood the conversations here- though found them too tedious.
For example if we had to address the king of a province- we use phrases like (having added all the dramatic nuances in the address)- 'the prime royalty of this land' or 'the hereditary sovereign - our majesty'; Or may be something as close to expressing love- 'ohh my dear to heart'--' ..my life could start and end with your existence' and many more of such melodramatic dialogues.
Now whats so new about this- like we all know some or the other kind of language/s and the art of using it is a truly articulate way of communication. That may be true, but we miss out on a fact that in the urge of justifying this art we loose the essence of communication. It is commonly observed in several instances, nothing very new in it, yet very new to me.
With no offence to such an address to the King or such Expressions of Love, the cover up of words with addition of drama is a little too much here. Though why can't we just simply say exactly what we mean to say- like recognize a King as simply as 'KING' or express love by just saying 'Love' and clearly mean it.
What crept me is the fact that the idea of using words in the best way possible we miss out on saying what we actually want to communicate. Allying with the thought, just when I was talking about the magic of this place I missed out the essence of this realization.
As much comfort that exists into simplicity of words, there is also enough perplexities of them which hides behind the complexity of words. Understanding that well, we always want to stay aloof from such confounding situations (I do that alot of times) . Like we say we want to simplify stuff but end up into complicating it further.
Ironically, this is how we are every where around, we try to say something, end up saying something else and then tend to correct what is said and that which is not said. In the middle of everything, the actual essence or content of communication is lost.
Someday, we might master this art of using a language and its appropriateness. So much so that with all the chaos we can still manage to romanticize with the incidences in various forms and ways (writing this blog could be one of them hahah...), now you know how efficient one could get to be with it ;).
Without stretching it further, it may not be possibly be the best thing to withdraw from this metaphoric side of life we have created for ourselves. But we surely can try to live with a democratic understanding and can utilize as many languages to say what we want to, but make sure to communicate exactly what is meant to be said by using those words and means, just simply say it out (Like in hindi its said- sidhe sidhe keh do). Its just that simple.
P.S. At times a long story is needed to land across a short msg ;) :P
Its probably the only place where I have actually grew-up- not literally, but in terms of understanding things better - everything that is not me and myself.
Those several traces of delight-joy-happiness-sorrow-anger-confusion-disgust and the endless list of emotions could be felt in this one place altogether. So every-time on my visit here- I have those sudden realization moments filled with enlightenment. For me its one of those places where on the emotions graph chart several HIGHS and LOWS are noticed. All that is needed or can be done at best is experiencing them all in complete contentment of those emotions.
Oh well! before I get too sentimental and distracted about this magical land which I call mine by all means and methods- will share the sudden realization moment this time around on my trip here-- the art of using language.
There is a peculiarity utilized here in addressing everyone or expressing what you mean to say. One such peculiarity is that you say what you want to say but not directly (Like in hindi its said- ghuma fhira ke kehna). At first I use to be perplexed by the such a methodology but then understood the conversations here- though found them too tedious.
For example if we had to address the king of a province- we use phrases like (having added all the dramatic nuances in the address)- 'the prime royalty of this land' or 'the hereditary sovereign - our majesty'; Or may be something as close to expressing love- 'ohh my dear to heart'--' ..my life could start and end with your existence' and many more of such melodramatic dialogues.
With no offence to such an address to the King or such Expressions of Love, the cover up of words with addition of drama is a little too much here. Though why can't we just simply say exactly what we mean to say- like recognize a King as simply as 'KING' or express love by just saying 'Love' and clearly mean it.
What crept me is the fact that the idea of using words in the best way possible we miss out on saying what we actually want to communicate. Allying with the thought, just when I was talking about the magic of this place I missed out the essence of this realization.
As much comfort that exists into simplicity of words, there is also enough perplexities of them which hides behind the complexity of words. Understanding that well, we always want to stay aloof from such confounding situations (I do that alot of times) . Like we say we want to simplify stuff but end up into complicating it further.
Ironically, this is how we are every where around, we try to say something, end up saying something else and then tend to correct what is said and that which is not said. In the middle of everything, the actual essence or content of communication is lost.
Someday, we might master this art of using a language and its appropriateness. So much so that with all the chaos we can still manage to romanticize with the incidences in various forms and ways (writing this blog could be one of them hahah...), now you know how efficient one could get to be with it ;).
Without stretching it further, it may not be possibly be the best thing to withdraw from this metaphoric side of life we have created for ourselves. But we surely can try to live with a democratic understanding and can utilize as many languages to say what we want to, but make sure to communicate exactly what is meant to be said by using those words and means, just simply say it out (Like in hindi its said- sidhe sidhe keh do). Its just that simple.
P.S. At times a long story is needed to land across a short msg ;) :P
