"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

{INTRO : This is an imaginative piece, looking at different aspects. It's written in the form of a letter.}


The Blue Planet
12345П Light years
Milky Way galaxy
Towards the Sun – Near Venus

Hello Humans,
My name is “Alien Phattu Tingu”. I live on a planet which you are yet to find or should I say, might never be able to find. I am writing this letter today because I was feeling bored and wanted to ask you a few things too. My parents (yes, we reproduce too!) warned me against you before this. But they didn’t tell me the reason. Are you really that dangerous? Well, even if you are, what do I care?
Yes, coming to the questions. First of all, who the F*** told you we look like creatures made out of Shit? I vomited after watching ET. I mean why you always think that it’s you who are smart and rests are dumb? You make us look like superconductors, with a light glowing from weird parts of our body, as shown by you.
Second question, supposed to be first, but I was angry so I asked that first. Why you think that we will land up on your tiny winy home called “Earth”? Ok even if we happen to be there, why would we destroy it? Every time we come, run around like mad bunch of hounds and destroy you! HELLO…we have our own planet for God’s sake. And always when we are shown as friends, we have special powers. So you could benefit from them.
Third question, There are 100s of places & 1000s of species still undiscovered on your planet. Why waste time sending some stupid machines in the space trying to find us? Use that little amount of knowledge to uncover your own planet first. And after you do that I am sure your greed to find more will be satisfied. Try it!
It was almost perfect until it was “Global warming”, now it’s become Universal. Stop sending some needles which fart and pollute the space! You’re not going to find us. Bloody an Osama is still missing and you want to meet us?
Time for some universal facts. The numbers go beyond 2012. It’s not the end of number line or your planet. You’ll die, don’t worry. But not so soon.
Waiting for your positive reply in eagerness (no, that’s not the name of our planet).

Never to be yours
PT