disenfranchised
Jul. 23rd, 2006 11:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hells_half_acreI'm tired and I'm tired of everything. I didn't sleep well last night. I remember waking up several times and looking at the way the shadows and light looked on the ceiling. I remember I liked the way the leaves looked out the window. Without my glasses that tree could have been any height. For a while I pretended I was sleeping in a toadstool house in an enchanted forest. It didn't occur to me to think of a reason to be in an enchanted forest. I think somethings don't need reasons. Not everyone can save a princess or defeat evil or get lost down a rabbit hole - there are some who must just end up in an enchanted forest for no reason whatsoever and whilst there fail to get into any fantastical madcap adventures.
Tomorrow I'm going to sleep in forever. I'm going to sleep in until divine providence wakes me up.
I've always loved the word "disenfranchised." I've tried to use it in my everyday speech every once in a while, but quietly so that people usually miss it. The truth is I never actually bothered to look up what it meant. I finally did the other day. I'm actually disappointed. I've been reading that word, and using that word, in my studies for almost 5 years now, and it doesn't actually mean what I thought it meant.
Part of me wishes that I had never looked it up, and part of me is glad that I may have just avoided some potential embarrassment. However, there is another another part of me that firmly believes that language is only what we make it. I say that disenfranchised should be able to have a separate special meaning just for me and people like me. A weird meaning that lies somewhere between "disaffected" and "disenchanted," and doesn't have much of anything to do with being "deprived of the rights of citizenship."
Tomorrow I'm going to sleep in forever. I'm going to sleep in until divine providence wakes me up.
I've always loved the word "disenfranchised." I've tried to use it in my everyday speech every once in a while, but quietly so that people usually miss it. The truth is I never actually bothered to look up what it meant. I finally did the other day. I'm actually disappointed. I've been reading that word, and using that word, in my studies for almost 5 years now, and it doesn't actually mean what I thought it meant.
Part of me wishes that I had never looked it up, and part of me is glad that I may have just avoided some potential embarrassment. However, there is another another part of me that firmly believes that language is only what we make it. I say that disenfranchised should be able to have a separate special meaning just for me and people like me. A weird meaning that lies somewhere between "disaffected" and "disenchanted," and doesn't have much of anything to do with being "deprived of the rights of citizenship."
