Wild.

What does the word wild mean to me?  The world wild means a multitude of things to me, depending on the situation or context it is taken out of.  Wild sometimes means not following or obeying laws or restrictions, especially ones that apply to me.   Sometimes wild is just letting loose and not caring about anything, having a good time regardless of what people think or say.  And sometimes wild may mean the outdoors or wildlife, either way wild in some shape or form is in our everyday lives, if we realize it or not.  In my life wild takes on all these meanings and changes depending on the situation or from day to day.  Sometimes wild means letting loose, and doing whatever makes me happy at the time, forgetting the world around me, and just not caring what people think, say, or do. Other times wild means going against a restriction given or put on me, or possibly not obeying a law set forth.  Being wild in my opinion is always a lot more exhilarating than being mundane and boring, although sometimes the consequences that follow being wild and reckless are not really worth the happiness or fun that was gained during the experience.  Sometimes wild intertwines with different definitions such as the first two stated.  Letting loose and doing whatever makes you happy at the time, or living in the moment so to speak, can easily involve the second definition of wild, which includes breaking laws and not obeying restrictions.  There is a time and a place to be wild, although those standards or rules of acceptability are usually ignored when it comes to being wild.  When I heard the word wild, I think of young people going crazy, having fun, and in some cases getting into trouble.  Spring break comes to mind when I hear the world wild as the way spring break is portrayed by media definitely fits the definition of wild.  Wild has no boundaries or borders, it can encompass any area from the desert the suburbs.   The old western stories always talk about the “Wild Wild West” and they usually consist of action, bandits, bank robberies, and lots of guns, which is how I believe wild has slowly gotten its reputation as being very crazy.  The last definition of wild that I think comes to mind is the outdoors in general.  There are many words that correspond with the word wild such as; wildlife, wilderness, wild in general.  These three words all have the world wild in them and all relate to the outdoors.  The wilderness is the great outdoors where all of nature is.  And wildlife is the huge amounts of wild animals that are free of boundaries and live in the wilderness.  The way the world wild can be interpreted is endless and differs from person to person, and regardless of what you may think it means is a part of everyday life and is here to stay.