Choosing Judiciously, Breaking Free Wisely! Ways to Empowering Words

Immeasurable, is the Power of Empowered words 

So great is the impact of words upon people, that rarely sensed or understood. This power either hurts or heals; either crushes or builds; either breeds hatred or transforms.

                                      

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                        Story of Words

Diversity at crossroad......

Walking Encoded!

Universe resonates with varied sounds and sights. These sounds are not coded like any other known languages.

Can people connect, resonate, and develop understanding beyond any known languages?

Triumphed I returned from an errand of successful communication. As natural to human nature, I wished to share my experience, sooner the better. In an elated, light hearten mood, 

I exclaimed, “Oh! I feel as if, an expert in sign languages”. 

Overhearing me, one of the fellow travelers, responded in a sharp tone, 

"Japanese is the ninth, most internationally spoken languages”. Then continued, “Download an App to translate”. 

Soon a tussle over supremacy of languages was about to brew, if a chance was given.

In an age of several apps on handy, the suggestion was quite valuable. Contrarily, all do not feel comfortable to use many apps, in spite of knowing the fact, their advantages. Voicing my opinion seemed inappropriate at that time. For showing a difference of opinion in public often reflected ill feelings to one another.

Japan is a nation, where people take pride to communicate in their mother tongue. When their communications fail, especially to the foreigners; they express through gestures.

My first two days had been a battle of Waterloo! Defeat after defeat, on the streets of Tokyo, while communicating at the shops, railway ticket counter, on a train, giving an order for dinner.

To everyone’s relief, the Japanese people never give up. Being a much aware nation, people here understand language difficulties, that tourists like me face. Men and women relentlessly continue their efforts, while dealing with the visiting tourists till they see results.

My friend, Isha speaks Spanish, and I admire her. Learning a language is not easy. Some have knack and ear, so pick up quickly. I am not one of them. Yet then, that does not deter me from admiring any languages, which I don’t know.

I remembered the day, years before, at a souvenir shop, Louvre museum, Paris. The lady at the counter spoke to me in crisp French which I didn’t understand. Looking at my baffled face, she smartly switched over, to hand gestures, and, it was not difficult for me, to pick up the cues; what she was trying to say. Once the deal was met we parted with smiles and twinkles in our eyes. 

Two people speaking two different languages from two different poles, creating an understanding, winning over their language barriers.

                           Which  One  Will  You  Choose?

These instances make me to ponder over a debate, relevant to current age. What would be the language or languages of the world when the concept of merging the borders is being realized? Would the tendency to conform continue? Or the diversity in languages would be preserved adopting tolerance, thus valuing it, for co-existence?

In actualizing the concept of ‘Global Village’, addressing as ‘I and You’, ‘Mine and Yours’ probably would require giving way to ‘We and Ours’. Then provincialism, nationalism, internationalism which divide people will turn out archaic strategies of a bygone era. Moreover neither any culture, nor any language would be considered superior, or status quo. 

This highest order of ‘One World’ would lie in encompassing all diversities, varied melodies, languages, cultures, into one complete whole as ‘The World People’, bringing  greater joy, and, abundant lives.
-Ina                                             

No More Ignorants! Come For The Real Blue Sky!

Are we marching ahead towards a Catastrophic End? 

We don’t wish that for the world! Crumbling civilizations, crushing humanity, fragmenting the world into million pieces, has ceased breathing space from us.

In a flash back I came to realize standing on an expansive land, its bordering edges I could not guess. A deafening silence chased me. Chaos of crumbling buildings, in front of me, were the testimonies of how the fangs of blazing detonation, that had befallen over the place and its people on that fateful day. Near and far laid everywhere- over the bridge, on the river banks, floating on water, were the numberless, nameless, numbed human torsos, thrown in heaves. Charred skin peeled off, flesh exposed, bones peeped through, wounds gaped, tar coal black blood oozed out. My eyes burnt looking at them, corners of my eyes twitched.  I was in ablaze, engulfed in the fire of the explosion. Thousand splinters from it shot fire bullets; those tore off every bit of mine. My brain banged inside my skull. My heart made no sound of life. I gasped for breath, my soul like hundred pierced tatter disintegrated into nothingness. Tears gushed out alike a raging torrent on the land of dead’s, where the spirits of innocent people sighed day and night.

Agelessly common ordinary people only 
suffer, whenever there is a massacre. Here it has been an assault on their faith in believing. The trust they reposed has been betrayed.

Innocent, ignorant, simple minded people are being played puppets on chessboard of world politics and they have endangered their lives.

The fateful day, August 6^th, 1945, Hiroshima, in Japan, has taught a cruel lesson to the people of the world, not to ever surrender our conscience, not to breed ignorance, and above all not stake our precious lives blindfolded,being ignorant.

                       

Simple truth to understand is ‘Being With’.  Believing virtual reality of the present world, is only for connectivity, and does not extend to enhance true human relationship. Actually coming together, where our hearts beat, with the innocents, with the sufferers, creating space for them to feel the sky ‘Real Blue, in their lives too.’ We can all do, together, for us, creating joy, bringing human abundance.

-Ina