Make is an interesting word. It's an
integral part of some classic phrases. You can make both love and
war, and some people do both at once. You can also make peace,
although this can be interpreted in more than one way. The Joker
said he made art until somebody died.
What are we making today? But are we
really making anything? The implied meaning behind the word is to
create something that did not exist prior to our efforts. But all of
the elements of that thing had to exist previously. We can combine,
reshape and transform, but can we really make?
There are also variations on the basic
meaning. To make time is to engage in an activity in such a way as
to make progress. Usually applied to travel, it also frequently
applies to seduction. Making is (along with nearly every other verb)
used in certain situations to describe the eliminatory functions of
the mammalian body. We can be on the make, we can make things up
(were they down before we made them up?), we can make things over,
but not under. We can make believe, but it's pretty hard to make
doubt, unless you're good at arguing.
We frequently make mountains out of
molehills, which must piss the moles off pretty badly, to suddenly
have to dig several thousand feet farther than they expected just to
ruin your lawn. Although maybe moles can make point-five past
lightspeed, if they need to.
We make jokes, we make fun, we make
silly faces. We make mistakes (all. the. freaking. time.) but not
often enough do we make amends. We make friends and enemies, and
sometimes we can tell the difference. We make signs, sigils and
wards, and then throw salt over our shoulders to make the evil eye go
away.
We make money, and banks make money,
but they're the ones creating it by the magic of compound interest.
We just earn it by making things or making sure that other people get
their things, one way or another. Sometimes, of course, we make a
mess of things, and then we have to make a new resume.
We can make noise or music, and people
disagree greatly on which is which (unless you're an acoustician, in
which case you can make people yawn by talking about white and pink
noise). Of course, yawning makes other people yawn, and may make the
temperatures of their brains rise or fall (we're not really sure yet,
but I'll make a note to figure it out).
And, of course, practicing the art of
making babies is just about the most universal hobby there is.
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