312. What are you making that mean?

If I told you to think of a leaf. You would all picture a leaf. If you lived in the south you might think of a magnolia leaf if you lived in California you may think of a palm leaf. Both of you would be perfectly correct. Same question, totally different answer, but both correct. Your brain uses your point of reference to come to an idea of a leaf. That’s what we do with everything. We use our point of reference to attach meaning to anything going on around us. We bring meaning to things based on what’s going on in our world. If I asked 5 people to describe a leaf I would get 5 totally different answers even if two of those people were from the south, one might not have a magnolia tree in their yard, so that’s not their immediate point of reference, they might only have oak trees, so they think of an oak leaf. The point is we attach meaning to things based on what we know, or what we’ve experienced usually most recently.