Words and the Mind

    So it's been coming to my attention lately.... Words that are used a lot of time to get the same purpose across in a sentence...and how they feed different parts of the mind. Like when you play that game where you say a word, then follow it with the next word that comes to mind, certain words touch different areas of your mind.

    The first example is Indentify and Compare

Indentify

-fied, -fy·ing. –verb (used with object)

1. to recognize or establish as being a particular person or thing; verify the identity of: to identify handwriting; to identify the bearer of a check. 2. to serve as a means of identification for: His gruff voice quickly identified him. 3. to make, represent to be, or regard or treat as the same or identical: They identified Jones with the progress of the company. 4. to associate in name, feeling, interest, action, etc. (usually fol. by with): He preferred not to identify himself with that group. 5. Biology. to determine to what group (a given specimen) belongs. 6. Psychology. to associate (one or oneself) with another person or a group of persons by identification. –verb (used without object) 7. to experience psychological identification: The audience identified with the play's characters.

Compare

-pared, -par·ing, noun –verb (used with object)

1. to examine (two or more objects, ideas, people, etc.) in order to note similarities and differences: to compare two pieces of cloth; to compare the governments of two nations. 2. to consider or describe as similar; liken: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? 3. Grammar. to form or display the degrees of comparison of (an adjective or adverb). –verb (used without object) 4. to be worthy of comparison; be held equal: Dekker's plays cannot compare with Shakespeare's. 5. to appear in a similar standing: His recital certainly compares with the one he gave last year. 6. to differ in quality or accomplishment as specified: Their development compares poorly with that of neighbor nations. 7. to vie; rival. 8. to make a comparison: The only way we can say which product is better is to compare. –noun 9. comparison: Her beauty is beyond compare. —Idiom

    If we are told to compare something, we automatically look for what one object has, that the other object does not. Or what both objects have alike, or even not alike. This is automatically pulls the objects away from each other, and seperates them so to speak, but causes us to judge them, and also to form opinions of them.

For Example : Compare an Apple to a Lemon.

Apple Red Round Sweet Juicy Fruit

---where as a

Lemon Yellow Oval Sour Juicy Fruit

    In comaring we automatically look for opposites... Now if you are told to Indentify an Apple and Indentify a Lemon. You do not look for what one has that the other does not and their similarities. You just describe each as it is. We should all Indentify rather then to Compare, because when we compare like i stated earlier we look for the things that are different, and the things that are the same, and automatically form opinions on each object, rather then just seeing it for what it is and describing that.

    The others are the words Serve and Guide

Serve

v. served, serv·ing, serves

1. To work for. 2. To be a servant to. 3. To prepare and offer (food, for example): serve tea. 4. To place food before (someone); wait on: served the guests a wonderful dinner. 5. To provide goods and services for (customers): a hotel that has served tourists at the same location for 30 years. 6. To supply (goods or services) to customers. See Usage Note at service. 7. To meet the requirements of; suffice for: This will serve the purpose. 8. To be of assistance to or promote the interests of; aid: "Both major parties today seek to serve the national interest" (John F. Kennedy). 9. To work through or complete (a period of service): served four terms in Congress.

Guide

guid·ing, noun –verb (used with object)

1. to assist (a person) to travel through, or reach a destination in, an unfamiliar area, as by accompanying or giving directions to the person: He guided us through the forest. 2. to accompany (a sightseer) to show points of interest and to explain their meaning or significance.

    Both words can be used in the same sense but if we are serving someone we are just automatically doing everything for them, giving them everything they need, if we are guiding we are helping them to get what they need.

    So as I've been thinking about how to end this blog, its finally come to me once again, while i was trying to sleep, that it is not yet to end, but to be continued as there are many more words that this same thing happens with....

So until next time...

Love and Light to You All!!!

---The Friendly Neighborhood Ghost

             .::Casper::.