Monday, March 9, 2009

He Who Must Not Be Named

I notice that there is a trend...
That there is always someone who 'must not be named" because of one reason or another
And I find this to be true of life in general

Take for example that in all things related to people and relationships, whether friendships, romances or just random chance encounters, there are one of three emotions that can be associated with the connections formed with new acquaintances:

Positive
Ambiguous
Negative

In the positive category, we are always quick to name those things that make the associated relation (friend, lover, relative, kind stranger, etc) based on their traits and characteristics, if not in name alone

In the ambiguous category, we neither feel extremes of either positive or negative influences in our opinions, or at least not enough to sway our stance in most cases. Should that change, however, then a person placed originally in the ambiguous category gets moved to one of the other two.

And then we have the negative, which always inspires more names than one would like to ever admit uttering in most cases. Yet, simply, we tend to remove the name of those who have been placed in this category, not out of fear, but perhaps regret...sadness...pain...

I have my own list of nameless, who shall remain so...
Yet these nameless are not all negatively influenced...ok, 99% are, but that 1% that is in this category, who began as an ambiguous anonymity...and remains this way... they will not go named as a reminder...
All the rest are nameless to me and me alone. Their names have no power or currency here.

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