Voice

Voices. They're so powerful. To me, they round up a person which helps bring out their personalities even better. I've always had a thing for voices. And when I was meeting various people for matrimonial purposes, I'd often be completely and utterly put off by them just by their voices - regardless of how they were as a person. Yes, I'm shallow. Deal with it. 

I digress though. The point I was trying to make is that a powerful voice leaves a trace in your memory. When you hear that voice again years later, it strikes something in your mind and you're automatically trying to remember the person who it belongs to. Imagine a phone call from a long lost person who you're trying to place. 

The other day, whilst clearing my room, my mum and I came across some voice tapes from my dad's things. As much as I've spoken about him, you all know that he was and remains to be one of the most mysteriously awe-inspiring people to have been in my world. These tapes just proved that again - because they were of a novel that he had been writing from years before. I came across gold guys. Pure gold. There were other recordings I came across of his voice, of him having a conversation with a man who he clearly found very incompetent (my dad disliked a lot of traits in people - and rarely liked people, so when he liked someone, you knew that person was something! One of the main traits he disliked in people was, incompetence. He could not stand it.) It was quite amusing, but mostly it was weird. It had made me realise that I actually didn't remember his voice accurately. He sounded so different. And he actually sounded more African then I remembered! It also reinforced how young I really was when he left us. But listening to his voice made me remember how sure he was of himself, and how extremely intelligent as well. He never uhm'd or ah'd - like I do!

A voice can give you so much about a person - depending on the strength, the depth and the tone, and the other day, I was telling someone that their voice was really nice - and pleasant to just hear. I stopped and thought about what I had said, and felt it may have been slightly creepy, but it honestly was not. It was a compliment, albeit a slightly odd one. But you see, that's the thing about voices. If you found a voice irritating, squeaky or boring.. Well then, do you stop talking to them? Or do you just pretend they sound like someone else? What do you do? I generally lose interest and then make up a lavish excuse about having to go. 

So, next time you're talking to someone you are intrigued by, listen to their voices. See what you can find out, and whether there's more of a mystery behind that voice, or whether you fell asleep mentally mid-conversation. 

I'm so wisdomess.