Looking For Meaning

Take a moment to settle yourself in your body. To inhale. Exhale. Anchor yourself here. Welcome to a slightly longer Hit of Hope. Bear with me as I provide some background for today’s meditation.

A big word floated into my mind recently, and it turns out, I had the meaning wrong. The word is “inchoate,” and I thought it meant chaos, disorder, confusion. Turns out, I am not alone—the Oxford English Dictionary has now added that definition, but it explains that inchoate has only recently come to mean that because people are confusing it with chaotic.

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Great grounding thoughts ti start or end the day! Thanks.

Outstanding. Nailed it. Thanks for posting

I love your deconstruction of words, and the research into different definitions. And this can be life-changing. A few months ago I looked into all these definitions of patience. The one that stuck was, patience is the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without getting angry or upset. CAPACITY.
i mean to realize that to be patient all I have to do is tolerate something well that's a lot easier than having to accept it, and when needed I can breath in a larger capacity for patience.
my other favorite definition is for integrity, as undiminished. and viewing both of these in this way has completely changed my perceptions, and my actions.
Namaste 🙏 duck

So, I'm at work today, actually enjoying the job in spite of the 3+hour round trip commute when my cell rings. This is my "what fresh hell" moment 37 or so times each and every day. Is it another bill collector impatient for my first paycheck? The mortgage banks announcing my inevitable lock-out? Please God let it just be another damned annoying robocall...
But these are the worst; asking for my wife attempting to collect another hospital bill. Tears and the choking lump in my throat are already swelling as I begin to explain. He's courteous and apologetic, which oddly makes it worse as I give him the Medicaid claim number, and I'm crying openly in the middle of the sales floor as he apologizes again before hanging up.
I am climbing, and I am beginning anew Every. Damned. Day. I am inchoate (classic definition), unformed and incipient, but aren't we all? I will grow evolve and I'll survive this, and it will serve to forge me into whatever I need to be for the next chapter.

Thank you again, Betsy.

Inspired, as usual when finishing one of your meditations. Namaste, friend ♥