Terminologies

The idea of the usage of terminologies to describe a person’s behavior is completely repugnant and should be under consideration by the modern human race. Niggling over terminologies can often lead to misinterpretation; making someone’s behavior unnecessarily predicted…the apparently inextricable situation or a person’s next move can become incorrectly certain, where the assumption about him can be completely contrary or invalid. Recent usages of a person been given some titles like a “nagging boyfriend” or an “insensible husband”, have caught my attention. The aforesaid titles have been given because of some striking similarity of the person’s trait, or responses to certain situations, with those described.  It leads to the improper imposition of some other behavior of a “nagging boyfriend” or an “insensible husband” on that person, which may be completely absent in the list of the person’s attributes. Last week I heard a wife yelling at her husband calling him a “mountain goat”, because of his growing white beard. Imagine a skinny bare-bodied late-middle-aged person climbing up a mountain only to have some ice caped grass or leaves of conifers as his grub, or acclimating to the chilly weather, you’ll find the problem.