21 September 2022

As I grow older…

by the day I’m learning the beauty and power of words. Not only words, but the intonations, choice of meaning in words that have more than one meaning, the punctuation…the entire landscape of words that form the pictures of our minds. 

Ludwig Wittgenstein famously said: “The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.” And language is all about words. The connection language has with music and math becomes so clear. Words, like notes in a piece of music, or numbers in a math problem can be positive, negative, or hurtful (language)/discordant (music)/a mistake (math). 

One never stops learning how best to use words. Language is so alive that it keeps growing and if one is to make sense of this life then one cannot stop learning words. We want to describe to ourselves how we feel, we want others to understand the workings of our mind, we want to share….and all of these need not only words, but the best use of them…