words that change their meanings with age

When you come in a new phase of your life, most of the things you thought you knew, takes on a new meaning.

For example: ‘mom’ means ‘almost everything’ when you were too little and then it changes to ‘a friend in need almost every time’ when you enter adolescence stage and then it changes again to ‘oh-the-person-who-I-wished-I-listened-to-much-much-earlier’ when you enter adulthood.

I’d like to quote this few lines from the movie Jarhead:

Swoff: So, now my hands were dick skinners, a flashlight was a moonbeam. A pen was an ink stick. My mouth was a cum receptacle. A bed was a rack. A wall was a bulkhead. A shirt was a blouse. A tie was still a tie and a belt a belt. But many other things would never be the same.

No. They wouldn’t.

One of my fave scene

It’s been three days now; I am (still freshly) in a new phase. It’s the phase of life in which we’ll definitely be tempted to dread everything that we just didn’t do when we’re younger that could’ve make a difference—the adult phase of making money with your own sweat. And it’s true. Everything suddenly takes on different meaning all together.

Other examples are:
Exhaustion=cheerfulness, hard-work=warmth, mornings and nights, weekdays and weekends (some don’t even have weekends in their dictionary anymore. Oh, me?), coming home=my own house not any hostels or rents, car and public transportation, eating and food=what now (?), internet and facebook and blogs and sites, bitch and bitches and bitching and bitcher, rest=not a choice but a need (bak kata Clyde), phones, happiness, excuses, bersyukur and many more words/phrases…

Most importantly, the word ‘school’ itself has a totally new meaning now. Its elaboration expands to a much wider scope of relating to the more positive sides now that I am here. I feel blessed. I hope things will stay this way as long as possible…

Even love and a lover take on new meaning. They mean so much more now…a lover can give you so much strength even in absence and ‘love’ never seem this calm…and calming…

Oh, aku tidak edit ini gambar. Cameraphone rosak masa ni.

Roommate=mom (?)
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