An overlooked part of words, and why it’s crucial to pay attention

…is seeing them for what they are beyond the shadow of a doubt.

Everything you have a word for, is a word.

I wrote about that previously, here , here , and here, to name a few.

Nevertheless, seeing words for what they are, beyond the shadow of a doubt, gets often overlooked because we’re told to not trust what we see by parents, preachers, and teachers, at kindergartens, schools, and universities.

When you’re looking at ______ (fill the blank), you’re instructed to see not what you’re looking at — words, beyond the shadow of a doubt — but what the words describe instead.

Incidentally, the same goes on with pictures (a word, of course).

When you’re looking at a picture of ______, you’re instructed you see not what you’re looking at — pictures, beyond the shadow of a doubt — but what the pictures depict instead.

An anecdote has it that Picasso received at his studio a visitor that mistook his paintings for abstract. So Picasso asked if his visitor had a photo of his family. When he laid eyes on the photo tended to him, Picasso exclaimed, “Are they really that small?”

What do you think was the difference between Picasso and the visitor? Well, I guess Picasso trusted his eyes and his visitor didn’t.

Of course, Picasso isn’t the only painter to trust his eyes. “To see, we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at” – Claude Monet.

Put differently, words put the owners back to what is using them. There are no exceptions to this rule.

In this case, the word-user is you. Practically speaking, that means to…

• Feel
• Hear
• See
• Touch
• Smell
• Taste

…that is to know anything, you must forget the word of what you’re feeling, hearing, seeing, touching, smelling, tasting, and know.

Because “the only source of knowledge is experience” (Albert Einstein).

Talking of which, the only thing you’ll find here are words. There are no truths here to be found.

What you make of my words is all up to you.
Everybody must find their own way home.
To each their own.

PS.
In my posts on the road ahead, I shall explore…

• Why a statue of ________ is a statue.
• Why we are told to distrust our senses.
• Why you are more than a 3-letter word.
• What books are made of.

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