Listening

We do listen....
And so do animals (whatever the technicality involved... snakes without ears... bats , use the radar..etc)...

What irritated me was....
these animals 'listen' even while asleep!... (Dog for instance... it almost makes us believe that there is no 'such-thing' as a sound-sleep for these guys!)... But, can't be true... they don't have that 'hangover' of a disturbed sleep... Bah! Forget it, that they sleep even standing..(some of them... ) there are ones who sleep-hanging! Its 'listening' that I was trying to look at...

Oh yes...
we ended up complicated that listening a little, when we decided to make-sounds-that others need to listen-compulsorily ( a court's “hearing” ... of a case... the “Your Honour” there won't listen to non-advocates primarily.... :-) he listen's better to case laws! Copy-paste Bij-ness in full swing... where as, quoting law, its concepts, preamble.. is an 'herculian-task' )

All of a sudden the voice at the other end of the phone 'seems to get mixed up with heavy wind' (guzzz guzzzzzz).. But, it could be just that the other person got all his teeth removed just-now (recently), and is waiting for the artificial ones (dentures... or whatever!)... We listen more to 'gush' of air, 'swooosh' than the words spoken.
Even shift of accents make that listening quite a task! (“Western” accent makes a pass mark in TOEFL... so tough! Listen to the noise they make and struggle for a 'cohesive' reply that fetches good-marks!)

I tried to look at it a little deeper (that bizness of listening)...

For the sake of my-own understanding, I tried to classify it thus:

1. Listening: Mind engaged in own-chat (the other keeps blabbering... his very-first sentence took my mind away, into an incessant-chat, with myself... and I lost the rest of it... I didn't actually disturb him... I , perhaps, left him quite-disturbed, by not listening at-all, any further!)

2. Listening: Mind listens while chatting : (the chatter of my mind is almost lost into own-stuff, and certain 'key' words, draws my attention... not any better, really)

3. Listening: Mind chats while listening: ( the attempt is to focus on listening, {for some sacred-reason}... but mind races along, to fish-out something related to what is heard... too-keen to 'make-sure' it is understood in-good-time!)

4. Listening: Well... just that listening... plain-listening... as innocently as a recording device! (Now it can be played back, and 'heard' well at one's leisure... but depends, on other factors!)

Some of the 'dialogues' I heard when a tiny-kid... made sense, only when I recalled it as a 'grown' up... for instance, in the colloquial language, the very expression “grown-up”... when it is about a girl attaining puberty, has a 'contextual-sense'... where as a kid 'at times' is said-to-blabber like 'grown-ups' :-))

It is perhaps, that 'listening'... and its classifications (concocted by me)... that led to deepening of certain perceptional-dimensions within me... leading to even 'listening' to the texture-of-thoughts of the other (guess-works turn correct, too-often... what else can be a 'credible-evidence'?)...

It is entirely another matter, altogether... that people claim to 'listen' to even unspoken things... listen to 'silence'... and poets claim even bizzare things like “Kuch Kehta Hai Yeh Sawan” - Asha Parekh - Dharmendra - Mera Gaon Mera Desh Songs - Lata – Rafi”.... link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK3E-YXEIXE

And now, I wonder... when it is merely-about reading a stuff... why at all does that listening get interrupted?... Oops... mind-games! (animals don't mind it ...!)

Patiently yours,
psn(7th August, 2016)

Controversy, contradiction, contravention, and that poor “confusion”

:-))
If nothing seems to afford a way to classify some 'conflicting' aspect of something... whether it is a 'controversial' thing... mere-contradiction... or a contravention (of norms like thing)...
'confusion' comes to the 'rescue'... we can simply say, “I am confused”...


A kid cries...
The parent tries to 'find' out the 'why' (that,.... after failing to do a 'summary-disposal' of “hey keep-quiet now!” Etc... it doesn't work always.. especially, when that 'crying' was not for 'testing' the moods of the parent :-)) }

When examples are simple... the understanding of a concept too 'seems' quite easy ....
( ask any kid... he finds those 'sample' sums(maths), damn easy... while the 'exercises' are stubborn! Doesn't yield to a grasp by its tail-even!)...

In a crowded bus,

a mischievous youth, ticking a girl on the seat in front of him...
'contravenes' the 'provisions'... of freedom to travel, unhurt, undisturbed, etc....

I do not even realise that I got into a 'wrong-bus'...
I did something 'contradictory' (to the purpose of my journey... nothing wrong with that bus, to call it a 'wrong bus', it is my 'choice' that went wrong :-))

I give a 'tenner' (a ten-rupee-note), and 'expect' that conductor to 'instantly' return the change of Re.1/- back to me , preferably a crisp currency , not that burdensome-coin of same denomination...
I have given rise to a 'controversy' (who is to decide, who was right?... the conductor, who claims “how can I walk out of the bus, each time, that I run out of a 'change', ?”... or the passenger, who might keep 'arguing', without realising that most people give only 'tenners'.. few part with a 'change' ... because, it involves 'fishing' :-))... picking a fiver, plus two-two's, one's etc...

Somebody, who gets all the 3-treats... (gets tickled, doesn't have a 'change' and God-forbid, the bus-was-wrong)... he finds 'shelter'.. under a conclusion-of-confusion ( “ I am a thoroughly/completely, confused man!)...

Religious sentiments, targeted by politicians, using emotional-sentiments... on people who are good at neither (religious-concepts, nor the 'emotional-stability')... struggle within, oscillating between these three (are they contradicting my-beliefs?... are they contravening my rights of following a 'faith'?.. are they raising a controversy about my-very-religion-itself, its basics?... Poor confusion has no-time-space, to raise its head... meanwhile things-flare-up !...

No confusions, about whom to vote for(same corrupt neta, for decades!)... or whether to get-things-done via-bribe... (it works faster...)... or, when the whole traffic is stopped, even an ambulance, to make way for a VVIP, (it is never a contravention of 'traffic-concepts' )...
nor is there a confusion about seeking 'entertainment' out of almost-anything (Bah! that 'working' for a living is so-burdensome.. it hardly 'entertains'... only to discover that 'retirement' is a bigger-punishment :-))

Declare something like : “Ah! What-a-weather.. today!!!” (very safe... doesn't matter if it feels too-hot or too-cold for the other... it evades a qualified-remark!)...

Un-compromisingly yours,

psn (6th August, 2016)