Chapter1-6

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These first chapters kind of blew my mind. I always thought metaphors were just a way to spice up writing—like something your high school English teacher would ask you to point out in a poem. But Lakoff and Johnson go way deeper. They argue that metaphors actually structure the way we think. Not just how we talk, but how we understand the world.  
For example, take the metaphor “ARGUMENT IS WAR.” It seems normal to say things like “He attacked my argument” or “I defended my point.” But this metaphor shapes how we actually engage in arguments—like they’re battles to win rather than conversations to understand each other. That’s wild to think about. It made me realize I might be locked into certain ways of thinking just because of the language I use.
Reading this made me more aware of how metaphors sneak into everyday life. Like, when I say I’m “running out of time,” I’m thinking of time as a resource—something you can waste or save or spend. It’s just normal to think that way, but only because I’ve grown up using those metaphors. It kind of makes me wonder: if we had different metaphors, would we live differently too?