The Art of a Tongue

There are many ways to communicate among people. Talking, texting, writing, and body language are some of the examples. Talking involves the movement of tongue and mouth. It is phenomenal for human to able to speak with one another in a very sophisticated way.

Tongue is one of the most unique human body parts. There is much usefulness in every way especially for transmitting language between humans. Words are transmitted as tongue spins. And most of the time, words are transmitted without clear conscience from the mind as humans communicate. It is a crucial part for mouth to function. In everyday life, mouth is a very useful organ for telling story, calling, and mimicking sounds etc.

In this entry, I am going to give opinion about what I think about mouth. First thing first, mouth is useful in transmitting idea from mind and soul. Whatever people see and think, they can always depend on mouth to tell to the rest of the people about what they see and think. It is one of the most important communicating tools for daily life.

Second, there is a saying: your mouth is your tiger. Meaning, without being used properly, whatever words came out from our mouth can end up making others turn against us. Thus, controlling what we say is very important to maintain peace our life. Mouth can be a blissful gift and it can also be a cursed gift. One word “attack” can pretty much flood the whole land with bloods, as we have learnt in the history of warfare. That’s the first thing about mouth.

Third, mouth can also be used to spin words around for turning imagination into reality and blinding people in their euphoria. That’s what we call lies. Eyes are the sense used to justify and see reality, yet mouth can be used to change the reality by spinning the words. “It will be alright”, for example, is used to back up the reality where we know it is not alright. “The school is so good and it provides one of the best education for Canadian boarding school”, as the agent’s tongue spin and I listened, and my head started to imagine my beautiful life in this school even before I visit it. While in reality, it might not be the best place ever or it might even be the worst place to be.

Lastly, mouth can be used to cover up mistakes, flaws, and sins. Voltaire once talked about truth can be picked only when it is very ripe. To me, to prevent the truth to ripe takes one’s ability to use his mouth to delay the truth from coming, or even better if the truth can be brought to the grave using the mouth. The idea came to my mind today where subject and object just need to be replaced to create a totally new meaning. “I love her” and “she loves me” sound different. “I hit you” and “you hit me” as well. It depends on how one’s mouth capability is in order to create a good lie.

My point here is, it depends on a human on how he/she uses the mouth. Telling too many lies causes a person to lose trust from others. Telling a bold truth causes a person to be hated. It all comes back to the saying “your mouth is your tiger” eventually. Someone might suffer if the mouth isn’t well used. It is indeed one of the most useful tool of human body, but may cost life if misused.