WORDS

I am preparing for a competitive exam and as part of it I have to memorize some thousands of words. Every morning I wake up and memorize them, revise them, search for them, connect with them and use them. Off course we all do this but in the process I realized the importance of words.

Words! Without them what could we have done? They help us express ourselves, connect to others communicate, describe and understand. We humans have invented them to make us think the matter or the information they carry within them. When I see the situation for example a child playing in the garden .I will have a beautiful feeling in my heart of the seen right there .I may come and pen down or at least express to a person some thousands of words .I may say the innocent child playing in the green grass, with beautiful flowers around, with colorful butterflies flying and fluttering away and her gleaming eyes filled with an essence of joy reflecting the shadows of the colors on their wings. Her arms stretched apart in happiness. One of her palm towards the yellow butterfly depicting her curiosity to catch it hold it in his hand and discover the pattern of colors on its wings.

I may go on describing. But will they be helpful to accurately describe the joy ,the emotions, the feelings I felt at the moment I saw her play. Well I am just an amateur writer. Consider some other person who is very good at writing or expression. Though he may use lakh’s of words will he still be able to describe the situation. If this is the case with an expert then consider the situation of a layman. He may use only a few words.

Though we all are successful in describing what we feel in perfect words will anyone guaranty me that the listener will understand exactly what we felt and empathize us.no.so should I say that words are not important.

At least the words give us information. The information is knowledge. And more over don’t forget the commercial punch lines help to improve the brand sale.wll we are now off the topic. Words help us to transact, record the history. Words connect bring back our past, show what we are now and also summaries all the aspirations and hopes of our future. Words guide us. They give form to human thoughts, Principles. Sometimes they are passed on to generations depicting heredity, culture, and customs.

Knowing the importance of words mankind has collected the words, memorizes, learns and started to preserve them in the form of scriptures, tablets, books, documents, p.d.fs. And fought killed, stood by to preserve them.

But in the race to acquire words we forgot that words are actually used to make us think. Words make us understand. The purpose of words is to just give a clue of the situation and the rest we must think, we must feel it. We are so acquainted in listening to words that we totally ignored the language. The language of feeling .we forgot to listen what the nature tells. The music within the sea shell, the chirping of the birds’, the signs, the omens, the beauty of ocean tides, the warmth of sunshine, the cold wind, and the smell of the earth on its first romance with the monsoon. We forget everything.

The words are used to connect us. Lead us. But they are now misleading us. When you say “summi” and I call you by your name, when I say Indians, the Americans, the Pakistanis, the Chinese etc all are dividing us. Words are supposed to establish identity, individuality. But the side effect of words has grown much more than its true effect. Instead of helping us its harming us.

The more words the more misunderstandings, the more mistakes, and the more division. Humans will definitely fail if they still don’t listen to the true language behind words.