Sometimes I like to think that my dogs know me better than anyone else They listen They love But they don't understand do they No I suppose not After all how could they possibly comprehend that the incoherent mumbling that they hear at midgnight on what you know will be another sleepless night is you bearing your soul to them In the words of what is actually the complicated results of thousands upon thousands of years and thousands upon thousands of people making the best efforts they can to communicate and rely the message of what's happening in the theater of our mind where our memories and dreams constantly play But perhaps my questions have less to do with dogs and their understandings of human language as how human language effects us
Like how one canΒ Β be expected to turn something as powerful as the human heart into words on paper How can the soothing feeling you get when its raining be explained How could a four letter word express that you would die for someone in a second if it would make them happy We think of words as the key to the mind when in reality its like looking through a keyhole into the worlds greatest library and hoping to witness all its wonders Its just gives you the fun house reflection
Human beings are a species dependent on words We trust that those who we lend our words to won't abuse them, but what guarantee do we have Their word? What good is others word when we ourselves have been known to deceive our own using the same weapons Because that's what words are Actually let me rephrase that That's what words can become And that's the funny thing about them