Weight

Roles: heavy-object, light-object, bearer, burden, scale, gravity, lifting, pressing-down

The felt experience of heaviness and lightness — objects that resist lifting, loads that press down on the body, the gravitational pull that anchors everything to the ground. Weight is one of the earliest physical experiences: infants learn that some things are hard to move before they can speak. As a source domain, weight maps effortlessly onto difficulty, importance, seriousness, and emotional burden. Heavy things demand effort, attention, and respect; light things are easy, trivial, dismissible.

As Source Frame (2)

• Difficulty Is Weight → difficulty
• Straw That Broke the Camel's Back → systems-thinking