Beyond the Word

असार १६, २०७७     Thamman Nirdoshi Basnet

Had human beings been able to share their emotions, feelings and passions in concrete words, the world would have been even more beautiful. The world is a wonderful creation of our mighty god. And human beings are even more precious creations in the world of the almighty god. 

The humans  believe that they are the wisest creatures of the world but they fail to communicate  each and every feelings, emotions, and passions in verbs.

I wonder if there had been the same language in practice throughout the world, how would human beings have been reacting and behaving to each other. The linguists believed that at one time, in the beginning of the world, there was only one language in practice everywhere. And it is also believed that all humans began to unite through the language.  According to the history of language development , single language  spread across the world due the early humans’ nomadic nature.  We can read many theories on language development. Bow-wow, Pooh-pooh, Ding-dong, Yo-he-ho, Ta-ta, Humanistic, Chomskey’s single step, Gestural theory can be studied as major theories of language development. The evolution of language has resulted in approximately 6500 languages across the world. The story of Tower of Babel discloses the truth why the Almighty created different languages. It is said that the god felt the challenge of humans reaching their heavenly abode. 

To scatter humans via language,  the god created diverse language and plotted against humans from being united by the language. 

The development of diverse languages confused humans totally. The variety of dialects throw the humans into the marsh of conflict. Today, we are unable to understand each other in real sense through verbs.  Nature has provided us everything. The most wonderful things are that every creature is given their distinct characteristics. Human beings possess wonderful minds.  

The same mind can remember many things at once whereas the same mind can forget many things at once too. 

I believe the power of forgetting is the most essential gift of god to every human being. But in our life, some events do not fade away from our mind. And those events become a hangover for us forever. In October, 2017, I had an opportunity to have a visit to Yunnan Province of China. I did not have much more information about China. Since it was my first international visit, I had no idea of making a pre visit plan.  But I had complete faith on Chinese people. My belief did not go wrong. The people I met in China are really wonderful, helpful, innocent and unforgettable to me.  The moment I was received by two Chinese Yunnan University students at Kunming airport, I immediately found the altruistic mind, innocent heart and unspoilt soul of Chinese people. In my opinion, here lies the beauty of humanity. Later, I got a chance to meet many other important people. I find their warm hospitality. I like the way the chinese people welcome the guests in their country.Their sense of respect made me impressed. In fact, having a diverse culture, tradition, and way of life; these people possess one common feeling, emotion, and belief. I visited a few schools, colleges, factories, shopping malls and different places. I met students, teachers, entrepreneurs, farmers, bureaucrats and civilians. I had a very good discussion with different people.

In our discourse, one of the girls from Yunan High School claimed that the highest peak Mount Everest falls in China. She honestly and openly discussed me. Eventually she was convinced with my points. I was really overwhelmed to know her knowledge on geography, history, technology, culture and love for national language.


All the participants of Silk Road Summer Camp were welcomed by chinese students and their parents in their home. We  had to spend  three to four hours with chinese students and their parents. We had a great time with chinese parents and students. I learnt how chinese parents support their children for education. I found a brilliant schooling system in China. I found every chinese patriotic. Their love and respect for  nation, language,  culture, history and national leaders was amazing. I did not find anger, tiredness, jealousy and deception in their faces throughout my stay in china. However, these are human instincts. I wonder how they hide these human instincts in our presence.
Is emotionless human possible? Is passionless human possible? Is wordless humans possible? These are many more striking questions for me. After meeting the Chinese, I realized that nobody can be emotionless, passionless and wordless in the world. I experienced new learning through my China visit. Can humans communicate without using words?  I think yes. The human sentiments, feelings, emotions and passions are almost the same in the world.  We can better understand all human sentiments, feelings, emotions, passions, hearts and souls if we have trust on each other. It will not be an exaggeration, if I tell you that if anyone wants to learn the true meaning of communication, one must try to feel others emotions inside their own heart.  Then we don’t need any verbs to share our feelings and emotions. The wordless emotions and feelings become more powerful than words itself.  Whoever I met in China during my visit, I found them innocent, hard working, humble, honest, punctual and artless. Right then I felt why and how China  is made within a certain time frame. They are the exemplary people in the world. To my great surprise, almost all the chinese hardly use English or other languages. They focus  on only chinese language. However I had been able to share my feelings and  emotions with them. And it made me believe that no word is needed to understand human feelings, passions, emotions, hearts and souls. If anything is necessary to comprehend the people of diverse languages across the world  then we need only an unspoilt heart and soul with us in our mind. And all the unspoilt hearts and souls can never fail to communicate with the globe. Here I believe that no human in the world can express their  emotions, passions and feelings in the concrete words. And I even claim that there is no human who can’t realize human passions, feelings and emotions.  But they can’t use concrete words to express them. Our wordless expressions are far stronger and powerful than any words used in the world. When we realize each one’s emotions we can understand more than words intend to explain. This is the magical power of the human brain. And everyone must be thankful for it. And everyone must use it to understand humanity. 

Gautam Buddha, Mother Teresa, Florence Nightingale understood human emotions without using concrete words and kindled the light of humanity across the globe. 

Many other extraordinary  people have been trying to practice the same for years. The humans have explored uncountable things in the world but I think there are many more things that have to be explored beyond the words.