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“I read this essay once about ownership of certain words and how meaning could change based on whether it was an in-culture language or if you were outside of it.” She stopped talking, embarrassed. “Sorry. I’m not trying to sound smart. It just made me think of it. I couldn’t even tell you the theories the writer mentioned.” “It makes sense,” Lucas said. “There are words that mean something different based on where you are or how you grew up.”
We do not cease to be who we are destined to be because of loss. We gain strength, empowerment. There is achievement in doing things on your own. A fulfillment of sorts.”
“There is a Gujarati word, bhutkur. It doesn’t have a literal translation, but it refers to the past. It’s embedded in our culture that the past has happened and doesn’t need to be revisited. My mother, she rarely goes back in time. This, all of it resurfacing, it’s good for her to see that sometimes it is important to go back and understand what happened, who we were when we made choices. If we don’t think about it, talk about it, how can we learn from it?” “You don’t. You repeat the same patterns, over and over,” Tulsi said.
