Today's Mind Rambling

Names. I think that originally, people didn’t have names. Originally, things had names so that they could be referred to specifically. But human names, I think, came after we got a decent language. Because that was when emotions became more what they are now and less what they used to be- which was mere instinct; anger, when hurt, to be able to fight more fiercely. Fear, to keep you away from danger. Joy, to make sure that you keep on doing something key to your survival, like a joy of hunting so that you don’t starve and die. That was in the caveman days. But language made emotions change more to how they are today. Things started to have sentimental value. Entertainment was invented. Love of a family member was created. Sadness for the death of a friend. Joy of a companion, like a animal. I think that when human names were invented, they were not invented to be referred to specifically- In those days, you just walk up to the person and point. People first had names because a son or daughter to a mother were more than just a item or place. The children were loved and cherished, and so where given names for sentimental value. The trend caught. Soon, most people had names. Some names were given religiously, perhaps at a ceremony or ritual. In such a situation, a lot of people got names at a older age, the name of which was chose to most fit the person. Last names came both for practicality and the same reason as first names. Practicality: Some people of different families had the same name, people wanted to refer to a entire family without saying each name individually, et cetera. Sentimentality or Other Emotional Reasons: To give a family pride, to represent a family or something the family represents, to establish each family and household as more than just a group of people. A name makes you more than just Human #7,680,594,992 of Place-In-The-World #2,685,465,194. It makes you more than just another object in life, and makes you more you. More unique.

Just a side note here. When I post a Mind Rambling like this, I need to go into the HTML code and search through lines of text and code until I find and delete all the "style>background_color; white"s that are there. Sure it makes my eyes and head hurt, but it's worth the work to share my work with you, readers.