Here is my personal toast to all things that are ambiguous. It may not encompass all things, but heck, I think that this will probably cover a lot of ambiguous things.

On Wikipedia, "Ambiguous" is defined as "the property of words, terms, and concepts (within a particular context) as being undefined, undefinable, or without an obvious definition and thus having an unclear meaning."

There are typically three types of forms on ambiguousness: Lexical, syntactic, semantic.

I encourage you to check out the Wikipedia reference in more depth at this site, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambiguous.

Why do I care about ambiguity. It's because sometimes there are things in life that you just go along with and never really understand the meaning of it all. It's because sometimes you let something continue for far too long and don't consider the types of things that others are thinking and how ideas, events, and experiences are perceived by other parties. It makes me sick to my stomach when I think that there are some things in my life that could be much different had I just spent enough time understanding and reconciling something between to people.

So what, I hold the Guinness Book of World Record's record for longest time with an ambiguous situation. So what! No body really cares that David Huxley was able to pull a Boeing 747 all by himself. It is completely irrelevant.

It's just so frustrating to know that had some actions taken a different route, or had I made some different choices, things perhaps would have worked out differently. I am torn up inside, and I don't know what to do about it. I really am unsure of how to approach this situation. I'm going to try though, because it is something I really care about, and I feel lost.

Ironically, this entire passage is completely ambiguous. However, it gave me a chance to vent a little. Feel things out. Get it out of my system and see it on a screen. I worked through some things in my mind. I'll be okay. Don't you worry. I can be foolish at times, but I will make this right.

This post was originally written by Foolish Person
University of Michigan · English · 21 Dec 2006