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The other day I was round at my Dad’s.
It’s where I lived from age 14 to 18.
And on and off over the next few years, in Uni holidays, etc.
My sister, brother in law, nephew and niece have lived there as well for the last 9 years.
As we went to leave, Leigh (my brother in law – he knows it’s the normally female spelling, his mum thought it was “different”) said bye to Charlie, my youngest son (then still 4).
“See you next Tuesday” Charlie replied to Uncle Leigh.
We (Leigh and I) both looked and each other and smirked.
If you didn’t know “See you next Tuesday” can be another way of saying a particular swear word.
Check the initials of “C U Next Tuesday”.
Charlie, of course, had no idea.
He’s not really taken the mantel off my cousin Jill who called me that when we were 6 and was told off so severely by my mum that she’s not said it since.
Because, as with most things, it’s the meaning that the receiver attachs to things that’s important.
And we attach meaning to things all day every day.
It’s what we do.
It’s part of what enables us to process hundreds of bits of information every minute and decide on our responses.
Sometimes the meaning we attach serves us well.
Sometimes it doesn’t.
Often a high proportion of our stress and frustration comes not from ‘what happened’……..
But ‘what we made it mean’.
Getting cut up in traffic lasts a second.
The meaning we attach to it of “Some people are jerks”, “They shouldn’t be allowed on the road” or “That’s the last thing I need with everything else that’s going on” is what causes us minutes or hours of negative emotion.
The comment someone makes on social media is just a selection of words.
The meaning we add of “Who do they think they are?”, “What’s their problem?” or “What a prick” is where the stress lies.
The planned workout we can’t make or the none optimal food choices that have happened are just a different use of time and probably a few hundred more calories than we’d first intended.
It’s the meaning that we add of “Might as well write it off”, “I’ve failed again” or “I’ll start again next week” that is what keeps us from making forward progress.
Remember, we don’t always have control over what happens in our life (although we’ve probably got more than we often tell ourselves)…….
But we always have control over the meaning we attach to what’s happening.
Much love,
Jon ‘We weren’t even seeing Leigh on the following Tuesday’ Hall
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