Of familiarization

This whole idea of accepting names and getting used to them really reminds me of how we get used to all other things in life, such as moving to a new home, or meeting new people and new places.

There's one quite prime example to this, which is when we start having classes with new people, and they all look weird, or sometimes too normal. Towards the end of the year we look at how familiarized we are with them, and we remember the first impression we had toward them and it triggers this whole feeling.

It seems the mind seems to slowly understand these new identities and personalities, and then, with time, an emotional response start to be created from those people, also from their names. I find it amazing how people and their names always get fused in an incredible way. It's even more amazing how two completely different people with the same name still make you find their identities to be completely fused with their names, even if the two girls are called Ana.

The matter of familiarization also includes the places and feelings we get from them. Any backyard, street, building seem to have their own identity. We develop a more solid emotional responses as we learn more about them (as they work as a quick way of recognizing important things). It's something about the sense of place, the so-called Genius Loci I mention here once in a while.