If only we talked!
Mar 12, 2008
This guy is staring at me and I am trying to push him off so that he goes to a secluded area and survive but he was just not moving after all my hoo-haa-hee efforts. Finally, I had to go after him and in my effort to touch him using a mop and push him, he didn't survive. This event led me to think if I was really planning to kill him. The answer is an absolute "NO" if only we could talk. I could have told him that he is in a wrong place and he would have just changed his location. Happy Ending. But because we can't talk, he is assuming that I am determined to kill him and I am assuming that he just might hurt someone with whatever little poison he has, if he has any! In this confusion, we take a totally different path. He is trying to hide from me by getting into some remote corner where I can not reach (but still close to cooking area) and I am trying to get him out of that place and get him moving.
Isn't the same thing happening to us humans also! Even though we CAN talk, we don't do it quite often. We have our list of assumptions, predispositions and prejudices against others and we never walk that extra mile to sort things out. And because of this inability, or rather reluctance, to talk, we end up hurting each other. Take a look around you. You will find so many cases like that. The issue is that these assumptions take such a deep root in our minds that we often forget to challenge them. I guess, we should, at times!
So, the next time, you are out there to kill (hurt) someone, think again if this hatred is just an after-effect of your inability to converse with the other person? The answer will take some time to surface but it will eventually come up in an affirmative!
9 comments:
Talking doesn't give solutions all the time....it might create problems as well.
@ anonymous
If you talk long enough, I am sure it helps all the time. If you mean choosing between "not talking" and "talking a bit", "not talking" might be better
:-)) din't expect it to have a moral twist in the end.
So how did u deal with the guy finally?? Am sure u dint try teaching him to talk ;-)
I ended up killing it :-(
chicken soup for the soul stuff! -gera
Poignant words for a man with a mop trying to scare away a lizard. I like the way the moral has been linked to the incident.
Could it be that you were too drowsy to control your mop effectively and your clumsiness did the poor bastard in?
@ Gera
Enjoy the soup :-)
@ Rathin
I wish I was! But I killed him in all my senses or rather he got killed when I was chasing him in all my senses! :-(
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For millions of years mankind lived just like the animals
Then something happenend which unleashed the power of our imagination
We learned to talk
There's a silence surrounding me
I can't seem to think straight
I'll sit in the corner
No one can bother me
I think I should speak now ___________ Why won't you talk to me
I can't seem to speak now ____________ You never talk to me
My words won't come out right ________ What are you thinking
I feel like I'm drowning _____________ What are you feeling
I'm feeling weak now _________________ Why won't you talk to me
But I can't show my weakness _________ You never talk to me
I sometimes wonder ___________________ What are you thinking
Where do we go from here _____________ What are you feeling
It doesn't have to be like this
All we need to do is make sure we keep talking
Why won't you talk to me _____________ I feel like I'm drowning
You never talk to me _________________ You know I can't breathe now
What are you thinking ________________ We're going nowhere
What are you feeling _________________ We're going nowhere
Why won't you talk to me
You never talk to me
What are you thinking
Where do we go from here
It doesn't have to be like this
All we need to do is make sure we keep talking