Desperate Blogging

You best blog, when you think you'll die if you don't. There is something inside you which can't wait: either too excited not to share the joy of it, too inspired not to claim the patent for the insight, too disappointed or confused to stay alone, or even too angry to cope with the pressure. Well, the list can go on but the simple fact stands out: YOU ARE DESPERATE TO TELL IT TO SOMEONE. That's the best blogging ever. This same thing is what I was desperate to publish! Isn't blogging sometimes wonderful?

Two silly things: one: blogger's spell checker doesn't recognise the words 'blog' and 'blogging' as English! Two: if you image-google 'desperate' the only result you get is pictures of 'Desperate Housewives'. Aarrgghh!

I quite misunderstand you!

It is a relatively long time that I am convinced that people relate to each other through a 'Misunderstanding' called 'Understanding'. Well, it may look a bit scary, bluffy and too bad but I am afraid to say that it is true. And the funny thing is that the very means which is allegedly responsible for human communication and understating, i.e. language, is the same and main source of this misunderstanding.

Well, let me first clarify what I mean by 'misunderstanding'. By 'misunderstanding' I am actually referring to more subjective aspects of human communication. In other words, if two people are pointing towards a bicycle and describe its physical features, it is more likely that their misunderstanding of what the bicycle is made of, or its colour etc. is minimum. But the moment they begin talking about how cycling feels, their mutual understanding is more a matter of convenience rather than a matter of reality.

Why? Because individual background of each person is so unique to him/her that there is zero possibility of complete understanding. The tricky bit is that no one never knows how much s/he is understood. Understanding is a delusion upon which life has long established itself. There is also a possibility that by some chance two persons may get too close to a reliable understanding of each other, but again they usually don't know about this either. (This is the beginning of a series of posts on this issue-I hope.)