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When I first saw this picture, I was completely overwhelmed by emotions.
The story had it that this baby was removed with the mother's uterus prematurely so that a corrective surgery could be done on the mother.
After the surgery when the doctors had put it back and was about to stitch up the womb, the baby reached out to touch the hand of the surgeon as seen in the picture.
This is the earliest form of human communication ever recorded.
Let me drop this here.
Human beings are not the strongest species on the planet. We're not the fastest, or maybe even the smartest.
The one advantage we have is our ability to cooperate... Communicate. To help each other out.
We recognise ourselves in each other and are programmed for compassion, for heroism, for love.
And those things make us stronger, faster, and smarter. It's why we've survived. It's why we even want to.
We are hardwired with impulses to share our ideas and the desire to know we've been heard. It's all part of our need for community. That's why we're constantly sending out signals and signs. It's why we look for them from other people.
We're always waiting for messages, hoping for connection and if we haven't received a message, it doesn't always mean it hasn't been sent to us. Sometimes it means we haven't been listening hard enough.
In spite of all our communication technologies, no invention is as effective as the sound of the human voice.
When we hear a human voice we instinctively want to listen, in hopes of understanding it.
Even when the speaker is searching for the right words to say. Even when all we hear is yelling or crying or singing.
That's because the human voice resonates differently from anything else in the world. That's why we can hear a singer's voice over the sound of a full orchestra. We always hear the singer no matter what else surrounds it
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