I don't know how to explain it. Do NOT!
- tuleenjundi
- Sep 23, 2023
- 3 min read
You are the only one who knows exactly what you are talking about especially when what you are talking about is experienced not sensed. i.e. if your goal to move a tree that already exists and you tell someone I will move this tree 10 meters to the right where the big rock is from where it is now - this might be easily understood by anyone (not necessarily valued though). However, if you tell someone I am planting this tree and it will turn into a forest later.. they might not be able to understand, how you are going to do this, why you want to do this what type of forest it will be, where exactly it’s going to start and end.
While to you it’s a clear goal and the forest exist in your mind, if you close your eyes you might even see a general picture of it, you know why this is important to you and how it will benefit even those who don't get it until one day that can sense it.

You see some words are just like the forest in your mind, on the outside they are words, to you it’s a reality in the making, it’s rich, it’s beautiful, it’s meaningful, it’s purposeful, it matters, it’s worth it. Unless they are at least aware or has experienced setting a goal and worked on it, they won’t be able to understand that the forest in your mind is something waiting to be born.
If they have faced challenges and worked on them in their own way even if they are not of the same nature of yours, they will be able to grasp what it takes, what it means and how it feels to work on your forest. To you it’s your soon to be reality, to others it’s an idea (maybe an absurd one), a dream (maybe a fantasy) a word (maybe a shallow one).
& Sometimes you are very lucky if life brings someone your way who also have started a forest in his head and understands fully what you are talking about.. If life brings your way someone who has the intention to plant few trees you are also lucky to have him/her helping with the forest even though they can’t fully grasp the goal beyond the few trees they are planting.
This doesn’t apply to the goals in your head only. It applies to any experience you have and can't verbalize and if you do your description never does it justice, such as feeling whole, connected to yourself, content, at peace, taking responsibility or having agency.If the other didn’t experienced these words themselves, they remain words and the meaning of them is totally based on the limits of their own experience so they might think you are both talking about the same thing but in reality you both have totally different frame of reference which is your different experiences.. If yo are talking about the peace of surrender, they might relate to the numb they experience eating ice cream bing watching TV.
A person who experiences a word doesn’t live there (in that experience) always. They can experience peace or being whole at times and still go somewhere else at times experiencing turbulences, fear, calamities or discomfort exactly like someone who never experienced being whole but with one difference, this person knows very well that fear, calamities, turbulences.. etc. are not the only reality to give in to.. You will know there is another option to go to, you have a home in you to go back to and you know you have a choice to go home.. you know you can take agency and choose your reality even when it’s a forest in your head that others might never understand! Don't bother explain!
Comments