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Have you ever termed a time period a ‘write off’?
You know – an evening, day, weekend, week, month or year?
“The weekend was a write off”
Generally meaning our eating hadn’t been “good”.
Now, I get it.
I know what you mean.
But…………
As with many things we commonly do………….
It doesn’t really make sense.
The definition of ‘write off’ is “a vehicle or other object that is too badly damaged to be repaired”.
“Too badly damaged to be repaired”.
What has been too badly damaged?
The weekend?
How can we damage a weekend?
It’s just a measurement of time.
Can’t be damaged.
Can’t be repaired.
Just a measurement of time.
Are we talking about our body?
The impact those food choices had on it?
Can that be written off?
“Too badly damaged to be repaired”?
We can’t ever lose the weight gained?
Never?
Of course we can.
So, there’s nothing that can actually be written off.
It’s just a phrase.
One we might use to justify our choices.
Doing the equivalent of pranging our car……….
Then taking sledgehammer to it.
Which makes just as much sense as making some ‘less good’ food choices…………
And then making more because of that.
Much love,
Jon ‘Peter Gabriel’ Hall
