One day when I was a kid, I was sitting in my fourth grade class, when my teacher pulled out a zip-lock bag full of beans. She asked “what kind of beans are these?”. Naturally I noticed these were the “butter beans” I had so often watched my grandparents prepare, and as I suggested this to be the obvious answer my teacher assured me I was incorrect. No matter how much I protested, she made it clear that “these [were] Lima beans!” For a long time that stuck to me because, this was the first time I was presented with the idea that two words could seem so different, yet have the same meaning.
I, like everyone, hope that the people around me will just know how I feel about them and just know where they lie in my heart; they won’t though, not without a reminder. We all fail to display our feelings to those we love at times but that’s when it matters most; love is not obvious, it’s actually the exact opposite. Family is not obvious it’s actually an assumption; we assume family means love, when it means similarity.
When this idea re-entered my life in high school I was able to readily assess it, and it became evident that words are so relative that they mean nothing. For example, to a monolingual Spanish-speaker the words “I love you” has no meaning, but to a native English-speaker it can mean “everything”. I’m sure your wondering where this is going and I’ll tell you, and it’s about practice over promise and what we fail to remember when it comes to human interaction and relationships.
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