The caption put up on the occasion of the fancy dress evening, for the pre-school children attending the Montessori school, at the Christian Medical College campus, drew my attention.
I was invited to be present for the occasion. Every participating child came to the stage for others to appreciate the fancy consumes they had put on. There was no competition, but every participant received a gift. All the children performed on the stage with a dance and choral singing. The parents and few other guest were delighted to watch the formal side of the children.
Does a label make a difference! It does from what I observed. It was a parade of different attires. Even the children would not have known much about the animal or bird or an insect or a person whose appearance they imitated through the dress they wore. Most of it was an expression of the imagination of parents. The children could at best, at that age, only wear a dress and not enter into the role of the living being represented by the costume. I was therefore glad that it was a costume parade and not a fancy dress competition.
The language we use to communicate ought to be authentic representation of what is real. We use exaggerations or reductions, superlatives or under descriptions commonly in our verbal communication. We use this to capture the attention of the listener or get across a message to ensure an appeal.
There are many who are people of few words. I asked one of them recently about his habit of using language discretely and appropriately. His response was 'we communicate more through our being than through the words we use’. That made a lot of sense to me because, people tend to pay attention to someone who speaks less, because there is much truth in the less.
Let our language reveal more of our being!
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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