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I am a Software Engineer since Aug 2004. Master of own space, Fun loving but within a limit, hate pulling other's leg, twinkling brain thinking of surroundings, blend of culture and sanskar, priest of music, always ready with a helping hand and a smiling face, Mr Attitude for people who deserve it, but a true and great friend for my friends ...

Monday, September 10, 2007

Mind and Meaning ...

“What is this?”, “What is that?” types of questions are common and we do answer to them if we know. But most of the time, we do not exercise our mind much on the question, and we answer the simple universal answer “I don’t know”. Simple words; yet are the answer to all questions …

Have you ever realized that you can get an answer or rather, a better answer if you pause for some seconds before answering to that by thinking on that for sometime? When you think “you already know what that is, but you are unable to express at that time”; that actually means, you don’t know the answer or at least clearly.

Heard a question, your mind started thinking, Oh... this one, I know, but rarely can it remember now and hence can’t express the answer. Why don’t we think that we don’t know the meaning of that… Let’s find out… Let’s try to understand that … Let’s try to get a permanent answer to that; so that our mind can have a snapshot of that word, meaning or question, answer for future …

Looks simple, right? But ask yourself the meaning of a word that you are very familiar with; and try to come up with some explanation… Can you? Most of the cases, the answer is NO. Then, take a pause, pretend that you don’t know to yourself and then you think for sometime, I am sure, you will have something better explanation than you might have given at the very first time before this pause thinking.

Why this happens first of all? May be, because, we feel too ashamed of the fact that our mind is unaware of the thing which is of interest in a particular context. Think on this, ask some small questions to your mind, and try to get good meaning out of that …

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