Let whatever you write or say have an importance to your audience
By: N. George
Worth Noting:
- When listening to a song or reading a book whether poetry, general fiction or real life experiences you need to put in to context the setup of the environment where that composition happened and more importantly ask the applied meaning of the knowledge you obtain from that literature.
- Some of the songs come as dreams so even the so called composer acts just as a conveyor of the message no wonder some of them are able to know the words they used in a song but cannot explain the various meanings that are associated with the song. As an audience to benefit from teachings contained in such a song you ask yourself how the theme fits in your life.
All poetry is supposed to be instructive but in an unnoticeable manner; it is supposed to make us aware of what it would be valuable to instruct ourselves in; we must deduce the lesson on our own, just as with life. …………… Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All over the world there are as many kinds of writers and speakers as the number of people available owing to the fact that everyone is different from the other no matter how slight these differences could be. This means the parents are not exactly the same as their parents much as they may have a lot in common. The same case applies to the teachers and their students.
Whenever privileged to have a chance of instructing another person you need to be cognizant of this fact so whatever may seem easy to you could be same or different to the other person and whatever may be tough to you perhaps could be a simple issue to the one who you are instructing that is why you find in the basic school in a certain class the students who are taught by the same teacher may later in life specialize in various fields as they have different understandings, tastes and preferences.
When listening to a song or reading a book whether poetry, general fiction or real life experiences you need to put in to context the setup of the environment where that composition happened and more importantly ask the applied meaning of the knowledge you obtain from that literature.
Some of the songs come as dreams so even the so called composer acts just as a conveyor of the message no wonder some of them are able to know the words they used in a song but cannot explain the various meanings that are associated with the song. As an audience to benefit from teachings contained in such a song you ask yourself how the theme fits in your life.
There are times you find people listening and dancing to songs sang in a foreign language which they do not understand do not condemn them perhaps they are enjoying the beats or dancing as a way of exercising so they may not be benefiting from the message but their reaction to the message.
You may train someone on something only for him to apply that knowledge in doing better things than you could have thought about owing to differences in understanding and possession of other kinds of skills in that person.
You need not to be jealous of such people as you too could be trained by someone else then use that knowledge to reach higher levels than your trainer has attained.
In the holy Christian book the bible Jesus Christ taught his disciples and audiences in parables and it was an effective way as he could use a single story to address various themes. Interpretation among various audiences could differ so everyone could use the most favourable interpretation to him.
The use of parables enabled him to openly address moral and legal issues among people of different ages which could not have been easy to do under ordinary circumstances.
Whether you are a speaker, writer, reader or audience you need to think about the author and other stakeholders of the message that you are consuming for example when reading poems from a book which you have bought be aware the seller benefited from the transaction, the author promoted the language in which the poem is written in, you as the consumer will benefit from the themes addressed in the poem, if you are being taught by a teacher he is earning from rendering such services. Use the information obtained for your benefit. Let it be a win-win situation to everyone concerned.
Be wise enough to benefit from both the direct and indirect message in every context bearing in mind that every detail matters and whatever have been brought to your attention it is upon you to make the best use of it using the various methods of thinking you may be aware of.
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