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"Every word immediately becomes a concept, inasmuch as it is not intended to serve as a reminder of the unique and wholly individualized original experience to which it owes its birth, but must at the same time fit innumerable, more or less similar cases - which means, strictly speaking, never equal - in other words, a lot of unequal cases. Every concept originates through our equating what is unequal. No leaf ever wholly equals another, and the concept 'leaf' is formed through an arbitrary abstraction from these individual differences, through forgetting the distinctions; and now it gives rise to ideas that in nature there might be something besides the leaves which would be 'leaf' - some kind of original form after which all leaves have been woven, marked, copied, colored, curled, and painted, but by unskilled hands, so that no copy turned out to be a correct, reliable, and faithful image of the original form."

Language, even in its basest form, generalizes us - an attempt to connect with our surroundings - and in doing so we threaten to sacrifice the purity of our uniqueness. We sacrifice it so willingly and unnoticed that it becomes questionable that it ever existed beyond fantasy and illusion. However, before it ever reaches the lips or the pen, language is a form of expression, a desire to project ourselves outside of our minds and body. As with all forms of self-expression, a reflection of what we externalize is received by our senses allowing us a slightly more objective view of ourselves, giving new light and depth to our existing identity despite the inherent truncation in the original transmission. In fact, it is within these gaps that our minds piece together new meanings.

Am I rambling in circles? I lost where I was going with this.