Am I Zonked or am I Zonked?

We've reached the end of the Challenge and I'm zonked.  I know I'm not the only Blogging A to Z participant who feels like they've been climbing a mountain barefoot, blindfolded and being timed while they did it.

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However, we've arrived at Z and I repeat that I am zonked.  I always understood zonked to mean exhausted, and while I'm not generally ignorant about word meanings, it was pointed out to me that zonked has an alternate meaning of which I was unaware.  It is also defined as being high.  High as on drugs not on a high place like a mountain top, its zenith.

How could I have lived so many years without knowing that?

My misapprehension of the meaning of zonked caused me to consider misunderstandings in general.  In addition to misunderstanding word meanings we also misunderstand people, their motives and words.

How often do we get into a disagreement because we misunderstand what someone really means?  It would be advantageous if we could open someone up, turn their pages and find out what they really mean as easily as we crack open a dictionary to determine a word's true meaning.

There's a lot more on my mind about communication and misunderstanding, but like I said, I'm zonked.

We have reached the zenith of the Blogging A to Z Challenge.  Good grief, how can I continue to blog without an alphabet prompt?