Commodity.

I typically think of “commodity” as a positive word.  Yet, I had a conversation with my brother the other day.  I said that “someone” was a real commodity.  He thought I was speaking of them in a negative manner.

In the business world… I guess… a commodity is a material or product that can be bought or sold.   However.  In other terms….it is also defined as something useful or valuable.

Two takes on the same exact word.  Homonym.

Good thing I didn’t say it was a fluke.
That could be a flatworm, a fish, the end parts of an anchor, the fins on a whale’s tail…. or it could be a stroke of luck.

And that is how most of my my days feel.  Like Homonyms.

Which may, or may not be… a commodity.  I guess it all depends on how you look at things.  At anything.

“What we see depends mainly on what we look for.” – John Lubbock