Words are only labels.
What are words but labels that we use.
What is a
word, a phrase, a sentence but a creation within our world in which to
communicate with another, who in turn understands us through the process of
stimulated repetitiveness?
We learn
words in our world from a very young age and continue each day adding to our
dictionary of knowledge called the brain.
Each word learnt is adjoined often by an impulse or stimulated
interaction directed by an outside source.
How would we then categorize such communication as language except to
call it creative interaction?
Think about
how words evolve within our world, firstly made from sounds and then built up
into words, then into more complex structures to order our life and better
understand the other people around us.
The real question is, do we really understand them or are we living in a
world of miscommunication?
One thing
is for sure a word is merely a label. It
can be utilized to label an object or thing, something that has no emotional or
feeling representation in our world, but merely a direct representation. For example:
That is a
?tree’.This is a
?hat’.These are
?people’.
This would
say that physical objects can be well communicated within our world without
much problem, except for the instance between two differing languages which can
be directed by physical stimuli. What
about emotions and feelings? How are
these two completely non-physical components communicated within our world?
Firstly,
let’s look at the word, ?love‘. If you
were to ask a group of people to justify their meaning of the word love in a
single page essay, no two people would write the exact same words. Love is yet one word but with so many
differing meanings and feelings that every single person has his/her own
individual understanding and context in which to utilize it.
Harry
walked down the road hand in hand with Sally and he whispered the words ?I love
you’ in her ears. What is Harry implying
when he says ?I love you?’ in this instance?
Yes, immediately most would say that it should be clear, but love is not
a word with a single meaning, so it can be understood from completely different
viewpoints. Perhaps Harry said ?I love
you’ because he loved the way Sally looked that day in her dress, the way she
cuddles him and is confident in her stride.
This would mean that Harry’s representation of love in this instance is
to say I love the way Sally looks to me, how we suit each other walking hand in
hand down the street.
Love can
have so many different meanings depending on the outcome to which we want to
achieve. What is love to one might have
conditions whilst to another might have sacrifice as its core foundation. Either way we still label this multi-faceted
feeling and emotion as just one word, ?love’.
It has no form but what we create through our mind, based on interaction
and feelings.
If feelings
and emotions have no real physicality, and cannot really be labeled, then we
are truly living now within a world of miscommunication. Did we ever stop to think that maybe the
whole world lives within this miscommunication, that in all essence we do not
truly know how to express to another person without them not ever understanding
our feelings and emotions? We constantly
talk about issues of misunderstanding between people because of emotional difficulties. It is the hardest thing for us all to control
in this life, to communicate through our emotions, to get across our deepest
feelings.
What if all
that we have problems in this world is merely because of misunderstanding the
emotions and feelings based around issues that we have no physical ability to
translate towards one another? We live
entirely within our own singular world without the ability to absorb another
person’s emotions and feelings as our own.
We can be impacted by another persons emotions and how they effect on
the outside. However, we have no ability
to become these people in form to know exactly how they are feeling. We can only try and explain ourselves to the
ends of time, with just more emotional labels that also have no full physical
representational value.
Are feelings and emotions then an appropriate communication device, or
just a creative expression? Would this
mean that the words themselves are merely a creative tool that needs continuous
understanding in order to be utilized? Next
time you ask someone ?what is love’, ?what is life’, ?what is purpose’, think
about what these things mean to you, and ask yourself, does this person feel
the same as me? Does he/she know exactly
what I mean by the labels I use? You will
be very surprised to find that in most cases , that these words are only labels. It is not until we use the words in the
physical sense that we can determine any real direct meaning from them.
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