Category: Random

To clarify, are we saying we can’t use the word itself but can replace it with something else, or remove the word completely from our lexicon without replacement or substitution?

In either case, it would be the word “should”. I do not like this word, and try my best not to use it. I used to use it as much as anyone else, but have been trying to catch myself. The reason I don’t like the word is because it implies obligation, yet many people use it to “suggest” things that they want, not that the person is actually obligated to do. For example, at work, “they (the company) should give 10% raises”. It can be a bit more devious when used in one on one conversation where the person saying it may actually have influence on the outcome.

Yeah, should would be the word I give up.

“Home” is an interesting concept to me. For most people, it’s a particular place – the area they grew up, their hometown. For me, home has always been a transient thing. My parents were in the military, so we moved around a lot. Different states, different countries – I don’t have a hometown.

Even now, after settling in an area of the US, I don’t feel that this is my home in the sense that most people think of it, especially with regard to this question.

Now that I have gone off on that little tangent, back to the question at hand. I went to the Bahamas with my husband once. We went on a cruise, and had a great time, for the most part. There was one particular excursion that involved kayaking. I had never been in a kayak before, and know nothing about properly navigating or operating one. We wound up stuck in bushes, going in circles, being the last in the line of other people on the excursion. Bickering and frustration were rampant. We tell the story now and laugh, but I will never again go kayaking or board any vessel that I am in any way responsible for propelling or steering. It’s safer that way. 😝

As with most of my answers to these prompts, it depends.

In general, I prefer nighttime and evening hours. Everything feels calmer, less rushed. That also seems to be when my creativity spikes. I honestly don’t care to know why (astonishing, I know!); it has simply always been that way. In this rare instance, I see no need in questioning how my mind and body prefer to operate.

However, because I live in a world where working hours are in the 9-5-ish range, I have to adapt if I want to get anything useful (in the “adulting” sense) done. That said, given the choice, I like to get errands, appointments, chores and such done as early as possible so that I can focus on my own projects and passions at the time when I am most creative.

The last thing I got, and am still, excited about was the launch of Peterson Academy. I love to learn, and the fact that I can take any course and not be tied to a narrow degree program is freaking fantastic!!

Just about everything, with the exception of history or politics.