I think words are like a costume. You say certain words because you want to appear a certain way to the people around you. You want to reinforce that image to them and maybe even yourself. I guess that's what affirmations are.
Some words aren't for me. Some words aren't for me to use. No not that word. I mean words like hyacinth.
Every once in a while in my life I've encountered people who are entitled to the word hyacinth. Usually women. A man who uses the word hyacinth is incredibly dangerous. I should clarify that I mean outside of its strict botanical meaning. I mean a man who uses hyacinth in a figurative sense or to evoke a specific image.
Women who use hyacinth are usually well-read poetry types who probably had a few close friends growing up and had enough emotional intelligence to realize that other kids didn't like them or understand them but they themselves were okay with that and accepted it for what it is.
Today my fake burger meat was like a pink puddle instead of the normal patty shape consistency but I ate it anyway and so far it seems like I got away with it.
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my gut take that is established in absolutely no fact or real time spent thinking is that: Human society and culture as a whole has left flowers and nature behind as its become more technologically advanced.
Oooh, Hot Take here, maybe we could write a movie about this, where the industrious culture-based lone individual connects with a more nature-conscious group that is being oppressed or threatened because their nature includes valuable resources that industry would really love to exploit...
I got off track, but the CORE of my thought was that the average joe probably knew dozens more flowers and plants by sight and name 500 years ago. Not because it was any more relevant to their daily life, but because they had the time get in there. And also the general exposure of living in nature more than our concrete boxes tend to let us.
Like, sure, plenty of people have plants in their home, so maybe I'm just strongly projecting my own flower ignorance. But I feel like if you average the flower knowledge across all peoples today and in the 1300 hundreds, we lose in flower trivia. Or at the very least in like... a general awareness and the space of it in the cultural zeitgeist?
But I'm probably thinking WAY too Eurocentric here, both of the modern day and the past, idk. Ya crab got biases. That's what we've determined! Ignorance!!
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