I liked this quote I saw on one of the IPRC silent auction goods:
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world --------Oscar Wilde
I recently read a speculation that language --- in this case, complex spoken wordiness, which some feel defines us humans more than anything else as a species --- evolved like any other ability in any other species: Survival. Basically, because it allowed us, above all, to justify ourselves to ourselves and to others. To justify our reasons for existing, and our courses of action, no matter how heinous!
Scary thought!
So here I'm writing this to explain my own perception of other ideas and things, and why I think it's cool amid the relative mishmash of everyone else's thoughts and why therefore you should consider it, and what do you think of that!?!?!?
Despite this, I have to wonder: Are there parts of our language that have nothing to do with justifying ourselves, moments free of that selfish 'slant'? When I see a waterfall and gasp and cry with joy, is that one of those moments? Or is that, too, a justification of myself --- even if all it does is proclaim, in a bodily rather than cerebral way, "I exist right now, and am happy"?
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