"In The Lost World of the Kalahari, explorer Laurens van der Post shares a haunting moment from his time with the Kalahari Bushmen.
One night, they asked him a simple question:
"Why can't you hear the stars?" He laughed, thinking it was a joke. But they weren’t joking.
When they realised he truly couldn’t hear the stars sing, their joy turned to sorrow. To them, the sounds of the night sky were real—an intimate part of nature’s voice. Not hearing it meant something far worse than deafness. It meant disconnection.
To the Bushmen, the greatest tragedy wasn’t losing your hearing…It was losing your relationship with the universe."
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