Distances...

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Well, am not up to something creepy or even aesthetically disgusting this time.
This time around, I am inviting your ears along with your eyes in the short hop of this blog space we are in.

Most of you would have literally heard the sounds of the words spelt as you read them.
It's amazing how we invent sounds and random words that mean physical things. Abstraction almost at its best! Mere words trying to describe what an actual thing is like! How else would you know that parting your lips and flashing all your 32 teeth actually is a gesture that is deemed cordial and is called laughing?
Or pointing your eyebrows, rolling your eyes and shifting your gaze actually is a gesture indicating disgust?
You wouldn't. The world is a strange place and when a friend says to another friend,"You know you're such an idiot ya!!", he knows his friend meant love! The trusting eyes and caring tone override the words!
Why is that no matter how much we try to express using even the best words possible, we are unable to express the most sublime of our feelings. Speak of Tower of Babel!
Feelings of overwhelming joy, soul baring grief, all consuming love or even life shattering pain find the best expressions in either a shriek,a sigh,an embrace or a cry.
Try saying this to a ghost,"Yo dude, I am super freaked out! This is in expression of my fear, hope you understand..like I'm really shit scared ya!!"

On the other hand, what if you had a world that didn't differentiate between expressions; disdaining looks, humiliating tones, rude gazes, confident eyebrows and friendly grins won't mean anything.
Or maybe would mean just the opposite! How about if a man beats his wife up violently and says,"Darlin, this is how much I love you!!" Sounds nonsensical, doesn't it?

 Well, if it's all universal, this can mean just one thing. Most of us, knowingly or unknowingly actually talk to each other's beings. The sense of hearing, ability to speak are all additional features to the actual communication and no the actual language is not even body language. Body language like any other language can be learnt whereas being a person comes from being that person.

Being in a place is probably a similar experience. If all external experiences with others take us to the territories of others' beings; internal experiences, where we internalise things within ourselves must take us to a place within our own being. It's like Global Positioning System in your own heart and soul!
When you arrive at a breathtakingly beautiful place, you actually reach the coordinates in your heart that appreciates that beauty.
You pass by an alley with loads of good childhood memories, you've reached the coordinates that throbs of the nostalgia.
You walk into a place of worship, you walk into the space of your heart that defines the temple, abode of the supernatural!
You experience a lot of hatred and discrimination, I guess, you just stop by a makeshift corner. Maybe the coordinates of processing negativity readily don't exist.
We don't go places, we just go wandering into our own souls.

There must be so many experiences to travel to, so much ground to cover with people around you! Sadly, we are brainwashed to notice the differences first and not the similarities. It's always us and them.
Deserts and mountains and plains are very different to each other but the individuality in their textures however don't steal the fact that they are all land masses upon water. They are all earth! Sadly, the distances and differences between hearts are longer than geographies but you know, at times, hopscotches prove better than an airbus!!