Summary
People around the world understand different words differently based on several factors. People must understand this to appreciate diversity. How I define different words is not the same way my friends and colleagues perceive them. The difference makes the world beautiful because monotony is always dull. The present work seeks to present the diversity element based on understanding some selected words.
It starts by providing a different view or understanding of the selected words before providing a counterargument that juxtaposes the different views with personal understanding. The specific words utilized here are caring, loving, hard worker, wife, and mother. The diverse views of other people come mainly from things like cultural backgrounds and beliefs. The present discussion thus endeavors to look at what another perspective of each of these words might be. A key theme in the discussion further touches on the fact that language, unlike sciences, lacks logic, and there is no particular way of handling things around it.
The term caring exhibits different meanings among different people in the world. For example, some people generally define it as showing concern or kindness to others. The delineation is general and anyone helping another person, regardless of the underlying reason, is caring based on this definition. Another meaning of the word ‘caring’ is the exercise of looking after persons who lack the ability to take care of themselves. Such depiction mainly applies in the area of medicine and health care. Persons employed to take care of the sickly or elderly are perceived as caring. The aspect of bearing and tolerating other people’s pains and sufferings to stand with them depicts care (Morris 168). Many people cannot often bear such draining situations. A nurse is thus a caring person, based on this elucidation. The caregivers play a major role in the healthcare setting by taking care of the needs of both doctors and patients. The profession thus involves caring, according to the wide range of services that the professionals offer.
On the other hand, the term loving exhibits equally diverse definitions and meanings among different people. Many people, for instance, understand the word ‘loving’ as depicting great care towards someone or something. The view mostly touches on at least three kinds of love: phileo, eros, and sterego. Phileo is a kind of love that exists between friends and is based on attractions and favors. This form of love is significantly weak in that it is obligatory. Eros is fleshly love, while sterego is love between friends or friendship love. All these types of love exhibit substantial faults and often fail the test of time (Lewis 97). Basing the meaning of the term ‘loving’ on feelings, for example, implies that the word lacks meaning the moment the feelings, which are mainly chemical reactions, cease. That is why a friend of mine defines the term loving as agape, or the unconditional divine love towards people, creatures, and things.
A hard worker is a completely different person from many people. The term often refers to an industrious or diligent fellow. The word, however, means a different thing to Schwarzenegger and Dan Pena. The two folks perceive the word to mean sacrifice and self-challenging. Both Pena and Schwarzenegger are great names in the history of successful individuals around the world. That is why many people worldwide tend to agree with them on the definition of the term hard worker. The terms mother and wife, too, have varied meanings to different people, especially today. The term mother generally refers to a female parent, while a wife can today mean everything from a married woman, or man, to her or his husband. The complex definition of the terms wife and mother nowadays comes from the emergence of things like the legalization of same-sex marriages (Wijaya 89). The legalization move leads to the current LGBTQ situation, where a man marries a male partner, while a woman marries a female one and uses various ways to get and bring children up.
Counterargument
Looking at the definitions of almost all the words covered in this discussion presents my meaning as somewhat biased. I, for example, view myself as a caring person based on my tendency to do almost everything for friends and loved ones. My desire to maintain small circles and regulate characters who become my friends thus affects my definition of the term caring significantly. However, my profession as a future nurse pushes me to alter the term’s meaning with time. Taking care of patients and helping them bear their sufferings through the healing process stands to challenge my definition of the term. Moreover, my definition of the term ‘loving,’ too, appears self-centered.
My love always surrounds my relationships, especially among family and close friends. The fact, therefore, makes my definition of the term subject to phileo, eros, and sterego. I endeavor to seek agape, or divine love, to understand the real meaning of the term ‘loving.’ However, I still maintain my definition of the terms hard-worker, mother, and wife. Other than exhibiting diligence, my understanding is that a hand-worker is someone who puts effort into comprehending new things to benefit others and the self. A mother, further, remains to be a female in relation to her offspring, while a wife is a matrimonial woman reflected relative to her male spouse.
Works Cited
Lewis, Carlos S. The Four Loves. HarperOne, 2017.
Morris, Theresa. Health Care in Crisis: Hospitals, Nurses, and the Consequences of Policy Change. New York University Press, 2018.
Wijaya, Hendri Y. Intimate Assemblages: The Politics of Queer Identities and Sexualities in Indonesia. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.