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javasaurus ([personal profile] javasaurus) wrote2005-01-09 02:59 pm

Definitions meme

Got this from [livejournal.com profile] blueeowyn.

Define "youth"
Define "drama"
Define "friend"
Define "comfort"
Define "beautiful"
Define "happy"
Define "content"
Define "healthy"
Define "wealthy"
De fine "wise"
Define "freedom"
Define "just cause"
Define "wrong"
Define "faith"
Define "religion"
Define "spirituality"


Youth: period of (physical, emotional, intellectual) immaturity typically characterized by growth, energy, inexperience (and naivete), and a combination of stretching bonds to one's parents, but fearing to break them.

drama: performance designed to evoke an emotional, rather than intellectual response. This applies to real-life as well as stage/screen.

friend: someone with whom you wish to share the good parts of your life, and who will choose to share the bad parts of your life.

comfort: a person is comfortable when they enjoy freedom from emotional and physical stresses. To comfort someone is to help provide security from their stresses.

beautiful: that which evokes pleasure when beheld.

happy: the inability to stop smiling with pleasure.

content: at peace, able to avoid depression due to one's stresses, yet not immersed in one's victories.

healthy: free from attack (or the effects of previous attack) upon one's general well-being.

wealthy: Having more of something (usually money) than you know what to do with.

wise: full of insight, able to foresee the uotcome of chosen actions, and choose actions that lead to the best outcome.

freedom: abilty to do as you wish without fear of reproach

just cause: Based on a value system (personal, societal, or judicial), a valid reason for performing an action or set of actions.

wrong: inconsistant with pre-determined correctness.

faith: belief not based on proof/evidence/experience.

religion: the attempt to connect with the divine.

spirituality: ability to look beyond the physical reality to the realms of emotion, fantasy, divinity, etc.