Tag: words

Depend can be traced back to de + pendere, which literally can be translated to “to hang down from”. To be dependent on someone then means that it is someone you would trust to hang down from.

A person you can depend on should be treasured just like a valuable pendant hanging from your neck. Remember though to let these amazing people swing freely and let them be pendulums, swinging back and forth. Sometimes supporting you and sometime pushing you forward when you don’t want to go on. Sometime standing by your side and at other times swinging away discovering new things and new experiences they can bring back to you.

They will always be there though when you are hanging down from an edge to help you back up.

Originally write meant to carve, scratch or cut. It is not that strange as the first writing was on rock. But writing can still have this sense of carving something new, or to just make meaningless scratches until you feel you have found a new angle, a new perspective on reality.

Random comes from Old German meaning to run, according to Merriam-Webster. The word today is defined as “lacking a definite plan, purpose or pattern”. When we run through life without taking the time to sit down and think what we want to achieve then our actions might well appear random to people who watch us or even to ourselves. Our randomness might well be that we are controlled by our stress and fears that are very short-sighted instead of our needs or desires that may be more long-term.

The word real comes from Latin’s realis which means actual, and in medieval latin it meant “belonging to the thing itself”, according to etymonline.

So when I’m being real then I belong to myself, when I don’t feel real who do I belong to then?

According to etymonline, desire comes from the latin phrase de sidere meaning from the stars. I read somewhere that if you want to think big you should look up and if you want to focus on details to look down. This is a great trick if you get stuck in a situation you feel you can’t get out of, try looking up and see if you can see the stars and your desires.

Reader is, according to Merriam-Webster, defined  as “one that reads”. (I love circular definitions). But it is also defined as one who is “appointed to read to others”. Read can also be linked back to the German verb raten that means to council, advice or guess.

Is a reader then someone who guesses what others have written and then tells it to others?