Labeling of words.

The seasons of the year haven’t changed for thousands of years. Like rocks. There are grains, pebbles, rocks and mountains.

The seasonal names, winter and summer have been around for more than one thousands years, however, the names of spring and fall/autumn are more recent, partly because these two seasons were viewed as secondary to summer and winter. Transitioning from one extreme to another.

Before there was autumn and fall, there was harvest. A time when farmers traditionally gather the fruits of their labor before the onset of winter and their agricultural activities decrease. It had a strong association with this important agricultural activity.

Spring was once called lent. When the snow melts, the days lengthen, the weather gets warmer and foliage begins to bloom.

When I was young the word lent for me was associated with Catholicism and Christianity. A calling for forty days of fasting, from Lent through to Easter and it happened during Springtime, I never knew the correlation of the two words other than one was a season and the others was a vocation.

The wording or labels don’t change what each season creates. Even if you lived in areas of extreme weather during a season. Winter in the south is never as extreme as winter in the north. If we were to change the name of winter to semyarnati, it wouldn’t change what it is. It would still be the same mildness of cold and extremes in the different regions.

Which brings me to the fact of words. Snow by any other names is still, frozen precipitation in the form of ice crystals that falls from the sky when the atmospheric conditions are cold enough.

Words don’t change that what they are. Bad was once a standard of poor quality and behaviors. In today’s world, it now can also mean exceptional.

Words are everywhere and ever changing.

Words cannot harm. Hate speech is just another’s inability to comprehend the wording without getting emotional. An emotional outburst is not about the words. It’s goes much deeper psychologically and has nothing to do with the words. It’s speech or talk or articulation, discourse, expression or just plain old communication. Take the emotion out and it’s only linguistics.

How one reacts is not the point of the statement but a fallout of an emotional reaction provoked by one’s inability to comprehend what was said without calmly acknowledging the semantics.

By putting that much emotional emphasis on a word or string of words, you are choosing to put yourself in a cage and losing the freedom to walk away unscathed.

You are in control so why let anyone inside your head to vandalize it?

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