Well, for delineation of subjects in life, each matter/entity has to get a label. You tag them, that’s ordained and they are actually tagged using languages; letters coined into words that seem to befit the respective subjects. Thus we have words like “rich” even though it doesn’t sound exotic like it means, words like “impoverish” even if its fanciful sound has no way to avail it of its meaning. Language is only a means to create disparity amongst people, culture, and everything in life. How? Due to the characteristics each thing/ person possesses or lacks, it gets its label.
Studying the gradual nomenclature in organisms will make us understand the importance of naming better. So, it’s okay to have classes /strata in life. It’s one of life’s norms. It’s more important to name them.
I should agree with you that sometimes, things morph into what they are tagged thus your fear of the poor “becoming” and this is quite prominent in my part of the world where it is believed that the name a child is given manifests in the journey of his life but then I thought; “what’s in a name anyway? That which you call a rose another name, would smell as sweet as it is…” that which you call a poor man “wealthy one” wouldn’t make him own a fortune.
Thoughts by
Shuqroh Akorede Azeez
