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-Pinball Science quote: "Build wacky pinball games packed with science facts and learning fun!"-

Another morning of muddled dreams. All I remember with certainty is placing my old wire-framed glasses in their case on my nightstand. I think somehow they helped me remember... something... at any rate, there was some justification as to why I was handling them instead of my current glasses.

Strange how people (that includes me) tend to roll their eyes at new buzzwords. When one really stops to think, though, it would actually be better if we had more of them being invented. The English language, after all, is infuriatingly imprecise: the classic example here being the word "love". Now, I KNOW for a fact that many ancient languages (or even modern ones with ancient roots) had multiple words for all the ideas currently under the "love" umbrella. So why in the world did these terms get merged? I mean, it's one thing to imagine that a mostly physical/emotional crush is somehow connected to unconditional love, but it is quite another to foist this idea onto all succeeding generations! Or to imagine that an intense enjoyment of a subject like science, math, or literature somehow equates with either of those two!

And it doesn't work just to substitute in more precise words (like "enjoyment" or "attraction") because then people suddenly think that your feelings are not as passionate as you intend to convey... but yet, "love" is too intense of a word. Even though people know that you are referring to the milder form, doesn't it still demean the word, just a little, if it is used for such various different purposes? "What ifs" are rarely a good idea, but I do wonder sometimes if our current cultural confusion between loving someone truly unconditionally and loving someone (or something) because of certain qualities is due, at least partially, to this simple linguistic flaw.

Reality check. Wow, that was a heavier post than usual.