Go out into the world and learn to hear your own voice. In discussions about politics, commenting on a movie you've seen, consoling a friend, venting your discomfiture or dismay over a newspaper article, writing a note to your parents, leaving a message after the beep, you are using something most uniquely yours: your own voice. Be aware of it.
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| A voice is a mysterious thing |
The only criteria we have to judge what we use our voice to create, to judge it as something beyond conventional frames of mind, is our very own liking of it. How do we feel when we read, see, or hear it again after an hour, a week, a month, a year? Does it still make our own hearts beat a little faster, our own breath become a little colder, the hairs on our skin rise? How do we listen to our own voice? Is it with the pervasive worry that something could be wrong, that there is a typpo somewhere, that we embarrass ourselves? Do we perceive it is something merely functional, a means of communication and nothing else? If you would have a machine that would detect your state of mind and what you need to express that would have some buttons on it you press to express it in an optimized way, would you use it? If you can avoid the stammering while confessing your love, or the shame while confessing a sin, or a writer's block, or too many "uh's", would you use technology for that?
