I was recently telling someone about the work I do and I got some interesting feedback. He said, “you’re an interpreter.”
I have been spending some time with that statement and find it very intriguing. I guess I have always collapsed an interpreter with a translator. But when you look up the definition an interpreter is someone who facilitates communication. From the dictionary… “The interpreter will take in a complex concept from one language, choose the most appropriate vocabulary in the target language to faithfully render the message in a linguistically, emotionally, tonally, and culturally equivalent message.”
I think it’s human nature to go through life not feeling understood or really gotten by the people around us. We’re such complex beings, us humans. If I were to ask you who you are, you would typically tell me what you do, your career. I would press on, who else are you; a father or mother, a writer, a member of my community, I play tennis and like to eat. What does that really tell us about you? Can we even expect to know you and your multi-faceted personality without being with you for years? And even then, there are aspects of ourselves that we keep private, sometimes even to those that are the closest to us.
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