Friday, March 19, 2010

Amidst the Flowers a Jug of Wine

Amidst the flowers a jug of wine,
I pour alone lacking companionship.
So raising the cup I invite the Moon,
Then turn to my shadow which makes three of us.
Because the Moon does not know how to drink,
My shadow merely follows the movement of my body.
The moon has brought the shadow to keep me company a while,
The practice of mirth should keep pace with spring.
I start a song and the moon begins to reel,
I rise and dance and the shadow moves grotesquely.
While I'm still conscious let's rejoice with one another,
After I'm drunk let each one go his way.
Let us bind ourselves for ever for passionless journeyings.
Let us swear to meet again far in the Milky Way.

Li Po

Sunday, February 28, 2010

Communicate

Language is a way of communication. That is what was taught to me in school. Later I found out that words can have different meanings. Also, none the less, expressions as a whole. A little mastery on any language renders better communication in the sense that you can say multiple things at once. Well if you ever come across literature stuff that is too difficult to understand or simple too bad to be communicated just give it another glance, there is a very good chance that you will find more than one meaning in that or simply it will be communicated to you deeply.

What I am going to say doesn't depend on this abstract. My point is not communicating. That is right. My point is "not communicating". This thing is killing me right now. I am finding a little difficulty in expressing what I am trying to say. In other words I am unable to communicate my feelings through ENGLISH as we know it or better as I know it. Why am I unable to communicate with the readers of this post that I don't want to communicate with the reading process of the readers. Or better why am I not able to tell that I am trying not to tell which precisely I want to share with my readers.
Anyways, if not about my sleeves, my point is "isn't it possible to stop communicating without communicating with involving emotions ?" If I just stopped taking then the readers of this post or better YOU might think that I am trying to tell you not to talk to me. Let me be clear hear. NO. I don't mean that. I just mean the importance of "not communicating". Well it might not be the "importance" but I am just creating a hype which we might call "importance" for the time being. Lets assume that I am talking about "not talking" and you misunderstood (means I miss-communicated) that I don't want to talk to you. But there is a little chance that you, for some time, did want to talk to me. Now it has involved your feelings, emotions. Now I don't want to hurt your feelings. And if I carry on as the world carries on by simply just "not communicating" a little scope of bad hope emerges in you. That is dangerous, very very dangerous. And I don't want to hurt you over and over again. So, what if I am to tell you for real that I don't want to communicate with you in any matter. But I do want to make clear about my "feelings" of not talking to you. Should I tell you that I don't want to talk to you or should I just stop talking? Yes, A few days makes everything normal. If not now then someday soon you will get it. If you liked me and loved me then you might feel heart broken and the same day you will say to yourself, all these time how you couldn't know what was going on. You will question yourself as on why you did waste your so much of time on things that lead to peril. So, isn't it better that I made clear that I didn't want to talk to you. In other words, isn't it better that I communicated previously all these things? Anyways if you didn't like me or love me, then I like you and I love you as you didn't give me any kind of guilt. But communication shouldn't be taken granted as an opportunity to reason. You aren't reasonable enough to try to communicate your point or better satisfy your curiosity on why I am communicating that I do not want to communicate. Simply, why would you demand to know when I don't want to tell why I am not telling?
But I am making myself clear that I am not telling you not to talk to me. That point I do want to communicate clearly.