Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Words take on many different meanings.
We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean.
Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.
The idea is that the object has a language unto itself.
I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.
The way I write, words can means lots of different things.
One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
Words have meaning. And their meaning doesn't change.
Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.