Language as an Idea

What if language wasn't called language? Or a better way to put it, what if language was known as something entirely different? What I'm trying to say is that, if language was seen as a less condensed definition. Language is so narrow minded if you really think about it. Look what we have done to it. When you think of the word language, what pops up in your head? I'm sure its not that everything that we do is a type of language. No instead we have this backwards thought that is just means the way someone else talks or communicates. But look at it. Language is so much more then just a way of communicating. It has created our universe and the society that each individual lives in, without it there wouldn't be blogs to read, or newspapers to write, or art to see, or people to talk too. It makes the world go round in a sense because we have made it the most important thing to us besides eating, breathing, and living. But we didn't really think about what language really is. We just wrote it off as something that we use, it's a tool like everything else, we don't really give it any credit, or really think about it unless we are learning a new language. Even then do we really see at as something grand or do we just memorize new phrases and new words to continue our own search for the things we want out of our lives? I feel as though I'm in a world that is based of wanting instead seeing how amazing the world really is. I know that in retrospect I'm a tiny dot that is meaningless, but my tiny dot is happy. My tiny dot is trying to do everything she can to appreciate what is around her and that the communication she has with her friends and family and strangers, gives her a chance to live an even better life. Language is much more than syllables and sounds escaping from the hole in the lower center of our face. Language is something that we should show a little respect for. It gives us that one extra thing that "brings us above the rest". Without it we would live very boring lives.