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Provision
This word has been stuck in my head. I get words stuck in my head when I'm trying to figure out who to be (meaning, usually, what decisions to make), and I think it's because I'm trying to trace meanings. Anyway, right now it's provision.
It's a great word when you consider it. (This isn't strictly speaking linguistic, though it has elements of it.) It connotes forward thinking: pro/pre + vision. It also suggests positivity: pro+vision. It implies a kind of readiness, in that PROvision=not amateurish, slapped-together vision. It's multiply possible and prepared for contingencies: provisional acceptance. In meaning, it refers to the bringing/supplying of needed goods. Connotatively, it's frequently food, as in "Do we have adequate provisions for the camping trip?"). Related words refer often to money--e.g. "He was a good provider"--but also to whatever's needed--"The Lord will provide." It's a position of great power and importance, as well, as the previous two examples suggest.
So, what does it mean? What does the vision of the future look like, how is it best achieved, and how much does it have to do with money, goods, and needs? Is providing the food the same as providing? Is provisional thinking preparedness for contingencies, or creating unnecessary hoops and thereby undercutting potential? If I got that money in the bank--not by dint of having earned it, but through association and accounting--have I provided it? Do I have to be breadwinning in the traditional sense to be providing? What does it require?
How do I provide for my and our future?
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