To Be Understood

Have you ever felt like nobody could understand you? You could tell them exactly what was going through your mind, and the words would simply elude them.

Maybe it’s not their fault. Human mind fails to contemplate what it cannot imagine. And it fails to imagine what it cannot make sense of. What it has never heard or seen or thought of. It might try to grapple with the concept for the sake of the person holding the narrative. But unless it accepts the truth of it, anything it says out of empathy, will lack meaning.

Meaning- what gives words meaning? And how can the same words, same things mean different things to us? How do we arrive at this ‘meaning’?

Of course, our experiences, the way we were raised, the people we came across, have a role to play.

And weirdly enough, some component in the brain.

The 7 billion permutations of it.

Why is it that sometimes words fail to explain what silence does? Sometimes eyes can speak louder than the mouth?

Somebody may shout at the top of their voices and you don’t catch a word. Somebody just looks at you, and it’s like you understand exactly what’s on their mind.

It’s weird. There is no formula. Sometimes, you may go through a lifetime, not having come across somebody like that. Sometimes, you read a poem from an author who lived centuries ago, and it’s like your soul being poured out. You speak the same language as a guy who existed 2 centuries ago, but you cannot fathom a word your best friend says.

Sometimes, you know somebody for all your life, and you don’t know them. Sometimes you know them for 3 days, and that’s enough.

Weird thing this meaning. This language. This understanding.

Amazing thing. To be understood.