Words are Not Enough.

Words are speed bumps, arbitrary symbols chosen to describe a fleeting idea. The mouth, quite sadly,simply cannot run as quickly as the mind, the mechanical formation of the sounds in conjunction with the mental arithmetic of creating grammatically-correct sentences slowdown the process. In the translation from thought to words, ideas are lost, and we find ourselves articulating mere fractionsof the original wholes. Words are simply crumbs of the once freshly baked bread in our minds. Our desperate attempts atreaching a complete understanding are ill-considered; we communicate just enough to survive, yet never enough to reach parity, we find ourselves sickly satisfied with this mediocre contactand listlessly gamble the chance of having our message lost and misinterpreted in the tangled mess of wires in another’s mind. Unlike words, thoughts are fixed, intangible and therefore far from the reach of the hands of another, unable to be stolen and manipulated, yet easily lost within the confines of your ownmind and forgotten, left hiding in an unoccupied drawer inyour head. All spoken, and moreover, written word, is a futile attempt at trying to catch up with one’s thoughts. It simply cannot be done, at least not in this state of consciousness. 


May 15, 2010
3:45am