the everyday occurrence of miscommunication

isn't feeling special feeling better than the rest? or is it more about maintaining a separate sense of self? most people think they're different from everyone else. in my experience, they are usually wrong. we mostly follow a pattern of sameness. if you are a true whack job, congratulations. the mold must never be sated.

to varying degrees we each feel disconnected from the masses, but it's just an adopted flirt with displacement. we don't really want to be alone. just away from the stereo static muffling madness. we each imagine a barrier between us. would this exist without language?

clever of an invention it may be, there are many cracks and chasms in speech. and just as many tunnels and twists in listener's ears, convolutions queuing to occur. deeper still, ingrained in our brains, we have a slight to moderate difference of association. depending on culture, demographic, background, age. meaning can get lost anywhere. it does all the time.

when i say the word dog, what do you feel? what if i say pit-bull instead? does it change your reception or is your reaction the same? words can trigger moods ranging from sedate to enraged. there exists in the prefix 'mis' something sort of strange. see; misfire, mislead, mistake.