Connection Through Language

Language is survival, for without our connection to ourselves, the natural, and non-physical world, life as we know it would cease to exist. 

Through networks of symbols, sounds, non-verbal cues, and alphabets, we use language to render meaning. Conveying thoughts and messages, linking perception to experience; thus fructifying conversations we have among ourselves, expressing our relationship to the world, and identifying the terms on which we exist. 

One thing about conversations, they happen through time and space. We are the legacy of history, and how we choose to move now will echo into the future. In fact, we are in conversation with each other at this very moment. 

Being a third culture kid, growing up in the United States, granted me many unique privileges. One of which being the luxury of intention with how I show up in the world. Another is profound awareness of language and its ability to bring us together, allocating space for connection, creation, and community. 

As astonishing as language is, it does require a listener, an observer. The gift of tuning in is just as precious as language itself. Take listening to music, as notes play and reverberate through your body, your mind melts into a pool of dopamine, and you become connected to the artist, even the people around you. The crazy thing is that you don’t even have to understand the words for music to elicit this kind of experience, that’s because art is an exchange that transcends the constraints of codified language.