One of the fundamental qualities about language is the ability to label an event or an object with a word. There is also the dimension that the word and the thing eventually become cohabiters of the same level of importance in the mind. Assigned meanings are essential for a human to build subsets of realities and to build complex realities based on experience. Eventually, you have to become aware of the pervasiveness of this labeling, and then start to redirect and become conscious about assigning both meaning and value to life.

Labels are found in almost every aspect of human behavior and human environments. Communication- talking especially, being in relationship, daily life, and interacting with people will lead to countless assignments.

In everyday speech we are constantly languaging things and events to suite the mental image of our experience or what we would like to be our experience. It often falls to conditioned word choices, which also then function as a recursive loop. One says a word because it is basically next in the hopper ready to come out of the mouth, then it chooses the next word that has been associated or assigned to that position reflexively.

The act of falling in love is made up of intense feelings that are continuously assigned meaning during the process of “falling”. A prime example is a couple during this phase of relating hears a song that soon becomes “their song”. The song acquired meaning through intense projection through the lyrics and a shared mutual experience. These events, songs, etc. rapidly take on a life of their own and are soon sublimated from normal consciousness and continuously work on the person’s mentations.

As you go about your day your mind is constantly being reminded of things that have assigned names to them. Each of these things will continually flood the brain and synapses with information and regurgitate it subconsciously as you are exposed to your life. The simple acts of washing the dishes, brushing your teeth, putting on your clothes, getting in a vehicle, walking down the street, and almost any other event you can think of, continually pull your mental state back into the logical, linear, and ordered world.

Everything has a name on it; the toothpaste tube has the name of the product, the company name, the logo, the ingredient list, and the instructions. To paraphrase Aldous Huxley from his book, Seeing Without Glasses, the human being is lazily taking in vast amounts of information.  These bits of information are lost to the conscious mind, but the unconscious is constantly sorting, finding pattern matches, and otherwise keeping a large part of your reality busy with mundane garbage. The big question is, “Are your content to accumulate such flotsam and jetsam in your head?”