I have heard more about the alchemist and their job. I have
wondered about their work and I have thought more about the possibility of
converting the base metals. After I read the novel or novella “The Alchemist”
by Paulo Coelho, the definition of life, language and Alchemist changed
totally. His philosophy and his approach are damn good and he pulled me towards
him to read him. In a general point of view it is just a treasure hunt story,
but is it just a treasure hunt story? This is the best question I asked myself.
I recollected what he said about the language in the book and used it as my
presentation topic in Communication Lab for the next day. In the presentation
along with my interpretation of the book and my own thoughts I mixed up and
presented a cocktail. I would like to present the transcript of my presentation
in here so that you can enjoy how a person can mix/mess up a thought of a
writer. I talked this under the topic “Language and Communication”.
Language is a tool to communicate, but the aim of language
is to communicate. So we are clear that communication is the main of the
development of language but we are giving more important to the development of
the language rather than the development of the communication (as it is
communication lab to impress the external these words). Once the language
started off with a non-verbal form and slowly shaped up to verbal form which we
are using today. We are keeping on upgrading our language in order to
communicate in a comfortable and easy manner. It is very well clear from our
SMS language. Even the opting for the English language is to communicate with a
vast kind of people and hence communication plays a pivotal role towards a
language.
Now we have a big question that is language is to
communicate only with other people? Or in other words do we need to communicate
only with others? We have been coming across listen to your heart, do what your
brain says, the nature is telling something phrases. Are they true? This is the
thing I wish to discuss. Our ancestors were talked to the nature and it is
evident from the texts and the history, but why we are unable to do so? Is that
we restricted our language to communicate just with other humans and it let to
the situation that we are unable even to communicate with ourselves. At least
we have to know/learn the language to communicate with our heart and our brain.
It cannot be said as language literally but it is has to be communicated. But after
saying all these what is meant by communicating with heart and brain, i said we
have to communicate with our heart and our brain then the ultimate question
arises “who am i?” so it is clear from all the questions I asked that it is all
about self-realization only after that we can go the point of communicating
with nature.
Communicating with nature arises the question is it
essential or the need of it. But I personally felt that it, the search for the
need restricted us from communicating from many things and now the need is
forcing us to extend our communication. This can be very well explained by the
mother tongue usage and forcing ourselves to learn the universal language. In the
same way we might face a situation where there is a need to communicate with
the nature as we are yet to discover the nature and its origins and its
evolution completely. The next step is how to learn the language to communicate
with nature. I felt it is more intuitional and this intuition comes only if you
can communicate with your heart, which is the real you.
From the opinions I told above one can conclude that
everything right from communicating to understanding the world relies on a
single factor called self-realization. Realizing one can only lead proper and
better communication and it can only make one to evolve other things may help
in one’s growth.
This is how I concluded my speech just like I have made this
own topic. Of course I have plagiarized many things from the opinions of Paulo
Coelho and added my own interpretations and led my imagination to flow over the
top and brought a product which totally messed up the opinions of Mr. Coelho. The
point I still haven’t arrested by the police is that I haven’t made money out
it. I just thought of saying Mr. Coelho’s name after my wonderful speech, but I
got a fear that if I say his name and external may get angry on my messy
interpretation and may keep an eye on my marks and so I stopped mentioning the
great writer’s name. To be frank I showed my respect to the writer by not
mentioning his name. If I have mentioned his name, then I can’t forgive myself
from the guilty feel.
Loks like u made speech which no one understands in the class.. :p
ReplyDeleteExactly thats what i was trying, but they should like understanding something, simply "purincha maathiri irukkanum aana puriya koodathu"
DeleteNice one !! More often than not, we tend to forget the purpose !
ReplyDeleteOh and this post reminds me of a very famous debate - Is hindi the official or national language of India ;)
Thanx Prashanth. And yes, at most of the times we forget the purpose.
DeleteThanx Ashwini, I felt this after reading the book. This book has its own effect in me.
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