Meanings are what we create, based on past experiences, moments in time and through our own interpretations of those experiences and moments.
When one delves into understanding the evolution of a meaning, one will come across a similar pattern behind the forming of meanings. This pattern is a guideline to the evolution of mankind, importantly the evolution of the mind. Every meaning connoted, speaks of past incidents and events in ones life that has lead to the formulation of a word and the assigning of a meaning to it.
The question that arises in my mind is then, when is it that a person experiences a totally new phenomenon, a condition, an event or an experience and what happens then? Do we simply judge it with regards to what our past understanding is or do we actually appreciate the profundity of the whole?
http://users.aristotle.net/~diogenes/meanmind.htm
What about a child?
Have you ever heard that by the age of 3 years or maximum 5 years, a child has witnessed and experienced all possible experiences that one can come across in a lifetime? So whatever one experiences post that age is a relative experience with respect to ones past experiences.
“The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see --it is, rather, a light by which we may see -- and what we see is life.”
…Robert Penn Warren
