manu: SOME OF MY THOUGHTS ON WORDS

Words give clarity to the vagueness of the thoughts and feelings, just like, a painting brings out onto the canvass the picture felt in one’s mind of a dream , an idea or a distant memory.

Words are expressions of a feeling or an idea and help to contain and channelise and bring to the outside world the idea or the feeling as close to what was felt by the original conceiver or feeler.

So the more words you know only increases the chances of grasping and putting forth into the reader a feeling as close to the one felt by the original feeler.

The above mentioned act of grasping is a voluntary thing and needs effort and thinking whereas the feeling is an involuntary and automatic reaction and needs no effort at all.

Sometimes words serve like handles to hold together the cloud of abstract and vague feelings or ideas that one has.

I think the idea or a dream or a feeling happens in a different area of the brain that may be the area that some people call the Gut and which could be the primary ,instinctual and functions not with words but works with ‘basic instincts’ such as body language smell and feel and only when you with conscious effort put words to them does one bring out into the conscious area of the brain, the idea or feeling.

But, words can be used to manipulate and interpret the picture of the idea or feeling in the conscious area of the mind and this could be what people refer to as brain washing. This manipulation of expressed feeling is what one sees in legal arguments or in courts where the conceiver of a feeling is suddenly made to realize by the lawyer and others at court that the words he put in to his own feelings were wrong and that another set of words were actually more correct to his feelings and then then suddenly the cociever starts interpreting his own feelings in a totally different way. That could be the reason why one single incident brings a variety of feelings and interpretations in different people. Such as in debates or arguments. This reminds me of a incident where a chemist, a poet, a biologist, and a philosopher all got together and argued for hours together what a flower meant to each of them.

So many times when I feel depressed for at-that-moment-unknown-cause, I close my eyes and search for the source or cause or stimulant for putting me into that frame of feeling, and the moment I realize the cause and put words to that feeling, the depression is totally gone or the depression converts itself into a pacify-ble worry and then to nothing at all.

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