Sounds that signify…

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What do you listen to while you work?

You bet!☺ I listen to soft keyboards tapping, chairs resisting, cushions grunting , whispered chats, sporadic coughs, loud boasts, the angry managers spilling  out of the cabin doors ! buzzing sounds from the pantry, spiteful honking from the parking below and the shuffling footsteps of all kinds around me. They make it my work place. Every sound, so significant.

Its interesting to identity people and process by the sounds, especially at the work place. From the morning ‘Hellos‘ to evening Byebyes, the sounds and demeanour keep me so enchanted.

Lunch time chair push- back sounds are so exaggerated, while on the other hand, the coy and sly sounds of pack -up are so negligible- silent departures! amazing. The morning greetings are loud, the pack-up byes are almost inaudible… especially from the work force!  Ironies of a work place. You know, if you know.

When I  am not working, I do listen to my favourite Kishore Kumar, his ageless- timeless gems… belted out decades ago but ever so evergreen and close to heart. One for you to sample out…

Song sung by Kishore Kumar; in this sequence from the Bollywood movie Golmaal, picturized on actors.

31 thoughts on “Sounds that signify…”

      1. You are kind, dear Sushmita! I am well and studying hard these days, haha 😃. I’m always happy to read something from you. Your views are often uniquely refreshing.

        Sending hugs and thinking of you! 💖

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      2. There you go, kind and beautiful as always 😌🙏 Just visited your site and found a couple of new ones. I have been keeping very busy… No time to think, you may say. Writing posts have come to just answering one of the daily prompts on a fortnightly basis. I hope to come out of my current schedule by this year end. Hope I am forgiven for my tardy responses.

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      3. Wow, thank you, Sushmita!💖 I’ve figured that either you don’t write or there will be something big (most likely sharp and refreshing) when you do write 😁.

        And please do take your time with the posting (we all understand the stress of a modern life 😅)! Cheers to a beautiful connection with you🥂💖!

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    2. I often marvel at how much more entertaining real life is than is most entertainment ~ and also have always been one to decipher my world by sound.
      I am prosopagnosic, or face blind, but I do not think that entirely explains the complete overload which direct visual engagement is for me.
      I remember that Ty Hadman, an internationally recognized Haiku master under whom I studied, also sometimes did not feel the need to experience an event visually, but chose to stand away and listen to it instead.

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      1. Wow, that’s wild to hear! If I can ask, were you born with it? I’ve heard that people don’t always realize that’s what is going on until later on, as there are so many other determining factors when having a conversation. Listening is so powerful!

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      2. I think your insight about delayed self-evaluation is spot on. I’ve even read that those born psychic do not so much realize it, as realize that most everyone else doesn’t have it.

        I think a lot of our personal individualities are that way ~ and the situation is complicated by our societal tendency to want everyone to look and act the same and to label any differences as deficiencies and illnesses, inhibiting openness, communication, comparison and contrast and, in significant ways, evaluation.

        In my case, I do think I was born with it ~ a combination of hereditary genius (always hard on the basic functions) and a high forceps birth ~ complicated by some stages of my life, especially the last three years, featuring 24 hour psychological cruelty including malicious sleeplessness enforced many times every night. I’m thankful to seem to be coming out the other end of that tunnel with faculties of logic and beneficent societal intention still intact.

        I think prosopagnosia (which has only been isolated and named for very few years), dyslexia and similar disorders are both more complex in manifestation and more liberating to the creative mind than we yet suspect. Dyslexics have been proven frequently to be unusually creative problem solvers and, so far, prosopagnosics find themselves predominantly in the upper IQ valuations also.

        Nice discussing it with you ~ thank you for your reachback on a subject about which not many are yet interested.

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      4. Thank you so much Ana.Thank you for adding such a valuable perspective here.And thus we understand the truth behind other faculties…😌eyes to feel and ears to see! I tell you, just awesome.

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  9. The whrrrrrr that seeps out through the ac ducts overhead consistently remind me of the temporary summer setting I’m relishing presently! Yet the abrupt slides of the sound into silence, scheduled of course(!), breaks my strands of complacency grounding me back in real time. The comfy creak of the makeshift work space … the tab tap tap as I work reciprocated by my virtual learner’s tab tap tab, the comfortable competent whooooosh of the automaton as it sets to dry the pile of wet stuffed in… the occassional bang of doors downstairs… my tiny 5 yr old’s pat pat feet racing down the stairs at top speed…and the whoooooozshhhhh of the airplanes taking off from Dulles Airport and crossing over our patch of sunshine intermittently… all these I record in my upperstory to relive in liesure… when I miss them most as I shift space to my home away from my hearth this winter<3 ❤ ❤

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Expressed words carry a world of meaning in them. I love to read, write and speak. Sharing my random musings here is a pleasure 😊