The Power Of Talking
The ability to talk has become such an integral part of our life that we take it for granted. It is very difficult to imagine a world where people couldn’t talk. It would have taken a million more years for us to reach where are today than it has if we couldn’t talk. As the lyrics in a song titled Keep Talking by the band Pink Floyd,”Something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learnt to talk.” So is being able to talk really all that important? Take a moment to consider a world where people couldn’t talk. The only methods of communication then would be through paper and pen. Supposing your friend had your notebook and you forgot to take it from him and you have a test the next day you would be in a fix. On a larger scale people would find it very difficult to communicate to a large gathering. We would have only silent movies and TV Shows as nobody in the world knew how to talk. Songs wouldn’t have lyrics. If you were in a emergency you wouldn’t be able to call for help. So we see that if we couldn’t talk there would be so many things that we would be incapable of doing. The human species being a very intelligent would have found a way to live without talking but then that would have taken a long time or we might have just decided to stick to the sign language used by early cavemen. And also as the saying goes, ‘You never miss that which you never had, so we wouldn’t really have “missed” not being able to talk. We can find a silver lining in not being able to talk though as if Hitler, one of the greatest orator the world has ever seen, couldn’t talk he might not have been able to amass such a following and thereby we might not have had a world war. So there might have been some positives if we weren’t able to talk but overall it would have been a very tough situation. But the next time you open your mouth and say something, just be glad that you can talk and your life is so much easier for that.
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