Wednesday, December 10

Mind (your) language!

Having a blogger account means you can have a webpage the way you like, with the words you want in it, with utterly useless and pointless posts like this at one o’ clock in the morning :P, and also with the language you prefer from a list of 40 languages that blogger supports.
Speaking of languages, I wonder how sophisticated it is in this world. Webster dictionary online defines language as “the words, their pronunciation, and the methods of combining them used and understood by a community”. Well, it is sophisticated to define love, to define God, to define sin, to define imagination, to define definition, to define itself!
It was hard for people living in the Stone Age to express what was in their mind to the fellow barbaric, raw-flesh eating man in his loincloth. It was language, which was very primitive and limited at that time, which shattered the invisible barrier between their minds and helped them understand each other’s mind completely. Man made his mind transparent with the use of a tool called language.
Language evolved with every species in this world, and just like humans, who predominantly rule this tiny speck we call as earth for so many millennia now, language has a very firm upper hand over everything in this world. Without language there is nothing meaningful in this world. But, with all this vocabulary, with all this sophistication in language, did language fulfill what is expected of it or it would be better to ask “are we still using it to express what’s in our mind?”
In this fast-paced world some use machines to find out whether a person is lying or not, some use the magical word ‘trust’, and nobody knows for sure what the other person is thinking! They just have to trust the person or the machine. Increasing misunderstanding between families, friends, dear ones, increasing divorces, all these things stand as evidence. A person in this world seldom spends a day, without using language to hide what’s in his/her mind. It’s hard to spend even a single day, by expressing everything that comes up in our mind! Now a man’s mind is completely hidden with the same tool called language.
Everybody is born innocent and everybody is good at their heart, but not everybody is good at their actions. ” It's not who you are underneath, it's what you do that defines you”. Whatever comes out of your mouth, cannot be taken back. So, mind your language!

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