Author's Note: With this piece, I just wanted the readers to have something to respond to and a piece that I could interact with the readers.
Today I was thinking about literature, and the use of words, letters. We all know how to read and write and say the ABC's, but in reality, aren't these little squiggles and lines just things that we made up? In truth, aren't letters just some person's idea of moving the world on to something bigger and better? These questions have been in my mind for awhile, and I have wanted to share them and get other people's opinions on them for awhile also. In my mind, letters and words are simply a person's imagination that turned into reality, the entire world's reality now; the past, present, and future, but are they really necessary?
Way back when human civilization was not developed, and cave people roamed the earth, they had no need to use words. They could communicate with simple nods of the head or hand gestures, or grunts. They were able to feel sadness, anger and love, all without the use of words or letters. Then some person came along and started to draw shapes, possibly on the wall of a cave or a clay tablet, and these shapes they gave meaning to, and then called "letters", and then, put these shapes together to form "words". Words and letters that the entire world knows, eats, sleeps, and talks. Everything in this world has a name, but in reality, is it just a few complex shapes pushed together to form a longer shape that someone decided was the label of an item, perhaps the closest thing sitting next to them on the table they worked at; or was it something deeper? These questions I, and perhaps other people, struggle to find a logical answer to.
Many people say that new technology pushed letters and words, also many other inventions, to happen, but does this mean that in the future, our world will have such a drive to find newer technology that is turns into a dystopic world? How we came up with letters and words, the world may never know. But if we didn't, would our world be the same?
Just something to think about. I myself need to think about this also. Comment your thoughts please!
