"Ek aurat neeche khadi hai"(there is a women standing below) a person was asked to translate this into English and he said, "Missunderstanding!" This yesteryears joke is not what we are going to talk about, but what exactly misunderstanding can do to anyone. What role it plays in a person's life and in the society.

A person could be found vulnerable to his own ideas. Many people fail to understand themselves completely. They fail to know what exactly their potential is. Both in the matter of underestimation and over. This is just a case of simple misunderstanding. If we look out beyond ourselves, there are a lot of other aspects where misunderstanding plays the part and rest just follows.

A father and son slowly develop reasons to separate and finally face the dreaded moment. Two friends who share a strong bond might break it up because they failed to understand something. A student and a teacher might face the same. A word, a gesture or even a wrong expression could ruin your whole life. They are everywhere, in so many forms unimaginable, misunderstandings…are yet to be understood.

So many thoughts, so many minds, and much greater is the number of people living(some fail to think, some have…well, no minds…another one of my misunderstandings), if 2 people can develop huge misunderstanding, think of them in the whole world. If the concept of probability is applied, infinity no. of combinations could end up. Not only they exist among humans but animals and even between non-living things and living ones. It depends on how a person assesses his surroundings, and reacts to a situation. A planet if misunderstood for a star could disturb the whole astronomy and concept of the universe that we might have.

All in all, My aim was just to divert attention towards this very minute but effective topic. Avoiding misunderstanding is near to impossible but how you deal with them is where you become distinct from each other.

• Ron Parker