Names

Recently, I got infatuated by a book I was reading. There were many things in this book that kept my interest, but at some point the main character mentioned a little something about the meaning of words, and how we use them to "name" a situation or a person.


This character was claiming that once we name something, let's say a relationship or a certain intense feeling, at that right moment it starts losing it's real meaning. He said that once you name it, it immidiately brings the "must do, and do nots" and far worse, certain expectations are risen. You tend to lose the spark and the excitement of the uncertain, of the nameless, of the unknown but enjoyable.


I partly find myself in agreement with this statement because I tend to get annoyed when people subconsciously force themselves to follow certain "rules" or simply patterns that these namings give them, However, this is when critical thinking comes on the surface and not only that.


Words and names sometimes can get you out of the darkness of uncertaintly. Instead of the loss of excitement, they can also intensify the emotions and also provide more motivation to do something about them, to upgrade them, to distort them, to destroy them, to pretty much do anything with them.


But once again, neither this nor the previous statement of the main charcter in the book holds an absolute truth. But that's what's so beautiful about it, don't you think?

"A place where the feast never ends
a moment when the music celebrates
and a time where darkness belongs to night's skies and
nothing else!"

(Archive-Nothing Else)