A confession:
So I am a HUGE nerd and get daily emails from dictionary.com.
You know to seem worldly, expand my vocabulary, throw in incredibly non-useful words in everyday conversation. Otherwise known as I went in with big expectations and haven't gotten around to unsubscribing myself from their email list.
Well today I got an email of today's "word of the day." It caught my eye before deleting.
Sudorific.
Sudorific.
How incredible is this word, right?
For all those (like me) who don't already toss this word around in their everyday conversation, and therefor do not know it's meaning:
1. Causing sweat.
2. Sudoriparous.
Hmm, sudoriparous...
I'm not writing this post to start a new-word-of-the-week posting schedule. That's a thought...
Instead, it's to remind us all to make sure we are making ourselves sweat.
I just recently had to do something extremely difficult. Something that caused me so much anxiety and sleepless nights (or days). I didn't know how I was going to do it. Didn't know if I would survive it. Okay, so I'm being a little dramatic. But it was painful. It was for the good of me and my family. I had to do it. I wanted to do it. And as much as I dreaded it I did it. I made myself sweat.
I got through it, and I am better for it.
You remember that time in your young life when you learned to swim? It was terrifying. But you needed to do it. Wanted to do it. And it wasn't until you had to do it, that you finally did it. Well I think that little fragment of time of going forward, and doing-instead of thinking, agonizing, and negotiating your way out of it. That single moment when you step up to the challenge. Make yourself pour out perspiration in worry, fear, anxiety, strength and willingness. That is when you find yourself. Find that inner strength that lets all else go and you take the plunge. You swim.
It's sudorific.
But it's life.
We all have to do things at one time or another that makes complete and perfect sense, but we still hesitate. We hang on to the edge. Keep the lifesaver wedged between us and what we want. What we need. We're afraid that we don't have what it takes. But you want to know something?
We do.
Oh we soo do.
Go out and find what makes you feel alive. I'm not saying start up dangerous hobbies of base jumping or parachuting. But find out what you can do to make your life better. And don't be afraid to get it.
Find your strength.
Turns out it is directly linked with sudorific.
But hey, it's just your body's way of saying, "hell yeah, I'm in!"
So I am a HUGE nerd and get daily emails from dictionary.com.
You know to seem worldly, expand my vocabulary, throw in incredibly non-useful words in everyday conversation. Otherwise known as I went in with big expectations and haven't gotten around to unsubscribing myself from their email list.
Well today I got an email of today's "word of the day." It caught my eye before deleting.
Sudorific.
Sudorific.
How incredible is this word, right?
For all those (like me) who don't already toss this word around in their everyday conversation, and therefor do not know it's meaning:
1. Causing sweat.
2. Sudoriparous.
Hmm, sudoriparous...
I'm not writing this post to start a new-word-of-the-week posting schedule. That's a thought...
Instead, it's to remind us all to make sure we are making ourselves sweat.
I just recently had to do something extremely difficult. Something that caused me so much anxiety and sleepless nights (or days). I didn't know how I was going to do it. Didn't know if I would survive it. Okay, so I'm being a little dramatic. But it was painful. It was for the good of me and my family. I had to do it. I wanted to do it. And as much as I dreaded it I did it. I made myself sweat.
I got through it, and I am better for it.
You remember that time in your young life when you learned to swim? It was terrifying. But you needed to do it. Wanted to do it. And it wasn't until you had to do it, that you finally did it. Well I think that little fragment of time of going forward, and doing-instead of thinking, agonizing, and negotiating your way out of it. That single moment when you step up to the challenge. Make yourself pour out perspiration in worry, fear, anxiety, strength and willingness. That is when you find yourself. Find that inner strength that lets all else go and you take the plunge. You swim.
It's sudorific.
But it's life.
We all have to do things at one time or another that makes complete and perfect sense, but we still hesitate. We hang on to the edge. Keep the lifesaver wedged between us and what we want. What we need. We're afraid that we don't have what it takes. But you want to know something?
We do.
Oh we soo do.
Go out and find what makes you feel alive. I'm not saying start up dangerous hobbies of base jumping or parachuting. But find out what you can do to make your life better. And don't be afraid to get it.
Find your strength.
Turns out it is directly linked with sudorific.
But hey, it's just your body's way of saying, "hell yeah, I'm in!"
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