Interpretation and Relationships

Interpretation! What joy, what calamity, what beneficence, and what peace it can produce? How does it have such a hold on human understanding, or relationship? Obviously we have not existed alone, not before or after our conception, and never will. Right interpretation can be seen as a universal law designated by a Divine Love for us and all other life forms for warmth and protection in interdependence. Interpretation and relationship are bound by response, by how well we understand one and all as we communicate. Interpretation comes from genes and environment, from conditioning which breeds perception, which stimulates attitude, which instigates judgement, which defines right and wrong. Perception can alter the flow of emotion in relationship.

We are unique beings and each of us may tend to interpret a situation according to our perception coming from our innateness and conditioning. We may be justified in having and airing our similarities or differences on issues, and some of us may be closer to reality or truth in our interpretation than others, yet there is that all important absolute or right interpretation that awaits discovery. Great ideas dance and dare to come to maturity like the sun spot-lighting diamonds on the sandy beaches, while the fitful waves come roaring in to smother them, but they return again and again because they are spiritual.

In conversation, understanding can vary all around and yet everyone can be just about right in his or her opinion. Conditioning moulded by culture and genes can leave a stamp of self-approval on the average person. This judgemental outcome can go adrift to disturb the minds of others in the search for rightness. When no one is wrong in ideology or opinion, it makes differences in head and heart a good reason for disagreement. In play, varied interpretation can cause the loss of friendship. In work it can cause anger and strife. Differences in personal opinion should not be taken seriously because on and off the dot differences are natural. At times, one may be compelled to change attitude like the lizard that changes colour to become a twig for its protection. The lizard goes back to being a lizard, but humankind can benefit from a change in attitude when confronted by over-riding forces. Deep within can be found compassion and compatibility. Relationship requires above all attributes, wisdom. In wisdom can be found tolerance, understanding and acceptance. Human-kind does have choice, a unique and innate force that can respond apart from the influence of conditioning, culture, or genes. Still, today a promising future in work options, or a life with a mate may not be ascertained by choice. Good relationship demands the fostering of duty, flexibility and empathy in work and play. Poor relationship can be like a cluttered city with confusing detours and smog, where street signs fall by the wayside. It creates an all round loss in communication.

Governments and the social and economic authorities in society carry on by interpretation and representation, which undermine all moves or, creating discussions and arguments. Population needs can be met by rightness of services, yet or changes, thereby leading to a positive or negative direction. In confrontation human energy gives way, strides forward in opposition accomplishment and results stand by interpretation, faulty or fine. It takes acceptance and honesty to foster compatibility and rightness. All enrichment lies in us, and we are provided with answers for our well being from our innate intelligence, from using our senses more deeply. Emotion comes from our primordial roots; it is our strongest mental force; it tells us how we feel; it can give much to the heart. It is the fuel that motivates life. Perfection and imperfection carry us along in wonderment. We hurt others and ourselves when we do not learn to recognise our mistakes. Relationship suffers when interpretation falters.

A million words a day may be found in feelings to be cherished or thrown out. Feelings created words, which in turn motivated feelings ad infinitum. Good listening must come first in the flow of conversation, where interpretation can be made easier, and response better or closer to rightness. From experience we know that every discussion does not require the severe demands of right interpretation, and people can enjoy a relaxed state and possibly reflect on new ideas coming from free speech; however, here sensitivity must come into play. Communication in work or play is serious business, and to be able to think or feel more, to hear well, is a gift in the art of communication. It puts the grip on understanding and acceptance on all sides. An asset for good discussion is a good listener.

Emotion unravels thought with that first cry at birth: observing and learning carry on slowly but surely guided by an innate common sense that continues to grow with time, as the limbs and the tummy grow, as the head and the heart laugh and cry. Interpretation and relationship come together, and common sense is in control at a hundred percent. We begin to lose it when outer forces influence us, which is a normal part of growing up. Subjectivity may be inclined to give way to objectivity for socializing and for the good of relationship; right interpretation may fall short and lose direction. We hurt others and ourselves when we do not recognise our mistakes in interpretation.

The more we are guided by specialization an unstoppable dirge of information catered to sustain our well-being, the less we are likely to use our common sense, which has the ability to understand and manage decision making for our betterment. The information and knowledge brought upon us promise health, happiness and spiritual fulfilment that are primary to our security. Often success is not guaranteed: our achievement depends on us and also on others who may not let us in to prove our worth. We have a fast growing world that has broken the sound barrier and attempted to outdistance the speed of light; we are bombarded by a digital world that offers every joyful thing, a super power that plays the greatest role in giving and in taking. Must one have everything? This is not possible because information can give a nudge to dormant greed.

The virtue in information lies in its duty and devotion in the field of health, and is an admirable calling. Today with speed at the forefront of every day living, and calamity itself standing along the roadside, there is that need for relationship and interpretation to develop a stronger, deeper level of understanding and awareness. One can see courage at work when the heart is broken, and the head is cracked with grief for others and for oneself. Gradually the strength of courage flows in from Divine Love or Intelligence. Where does Intelligence come from? If there was a beginning, where did that beginning come from? It goes way back, boundless and timeless. Should not every life form with its unique share of intelligence have its measure of protection and contentment? Life carries on in the underground homes, the ant hills, the tree houses, the ones built on stilts to avoid the wet lands, or the ones hidden in rocks, or surrounded by wondrous bushes and trees, the homes of sea life, and others too numerous to mention. These comfort and security shelters are places of love that can serve to enrich human love.

The power of observation can bring on a flow of emotion filled with joy and appreciation. People will be people, and when realization hits pay dirt that human beings carry a responsibility burdened wit human needs for human health and security; that the greedy carries a heavier load because of an insatiability; that the poor and helpless find satisfaction more easily because there is nothing else, unless they take the dirty way out which leads to worse; a healthy understanding that flesh and blood reveal a sameness in the human condition, a primal drive for security in a complex world intent on running a socio-economic race with an army of computers at the forefront: the human condition can inspire empathy, foster love and connect with enlightenment. Information multiplies

Interpretation and puts a demand on relationship. Contentment and satisfaction can be reached by various routes.

The mind deteriorates when sameness remains unmoving, when self understanding stimulated with conceit and pride sticks to its values, when boredom strikes in stagnation, and anger and anguish seek reparation in delusion, and comes up empty. The mind grows through pleasure and pain when one learns to relinquish, to adjust, to acquire, and to accept; when one’s attitude questions motivations or urges, when choice follows a virtuous path and the quest for peace becomes paramount.
 
 

author:  Willa Ramsaran